Items related to Innocence of Muslims

A Saudi internet surfer checks his Twitter account at a coffee shop in Riyadh. Malaysia has deported a young Saudi journalist who is wanted in his home country over a Twitter post about the Prophet Mohamed that sparked calls for his execution, according to an official. (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)
Tech experts brush off YouTube ban
Dalia Rabie 10 Feb 2013
Information technology experts dismissed a court order issued Saturday banning YouTube in Egypt for a month for hosting...
Cairo Administrative Court orders YouTube blocked
Egypt Independent
MENA
09 Feb 2013
The Cairo Administrative Court ordered the government Saturday to ban YouTube and all other websites that showed the...
Ali Gomaa, Egypt's Grand Mufti, speaking during a joint press conference with Ahmed Zaki Badr, Minister of Education, Cairo, April 26, 2010. Gomaa and Badr presented on proposed collaboration to develop school curricula based on faith and interfaith concepts.
Grand mufti approves death penalty for 'Innocence of Muslims' producers
MENA
Egypt Independent
29 Jan 2013
Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa has approved a death sentence delivered in absentia for seven Coptic Egyptian expats...
Albert Saber Ayyad, 25, blogger accused of religious defamation, flashes victory sign as he stands in cage during his trial, 26 September 2012. Court adjourns the trial to next October.
Q&A with convicted activist Alber Saber
Al-Masry Al-Youm 20 Dec 2012
Released on bail after being convicted of defaming religion, activist and blogger Alber Saber is speaking out to the...
Qataris wave their national flag as they celebrate, Doha, December 3, 2010 a day after the world football's governing body FIFA announced that the tiny Gulf state will host the 2022 World Cup.
Qatar-based firm to produce US$1 bn Prophet Mohamed series
AFP 18 Dec 2012
DOHA — Qatar-based company Alnoor Holding has said it will raise the budget for a planned movie series on the...
Expatriate Copts sentenced to death over anti-Islam movie
Al-Masry Al-Youm 28 Nov 2012
Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced seven expatriate Coptic Egyptians to death in absentia over involvement in...
Albert Saber Ayyad, 25, blogger accused of religious defamation, flashes victory sign as he stands in cage during his trial, 26 September 2012. Court adjourns the trial to next October.
Rights groups say anti-Islam film defendant being mistreated
Reuters 22 Oct 2012
Egyptian rights group said on Monday a Coptic Christian on trial for posting online a video that ignited protests...
Trial of Abu Islam postponed to November
Al-Masry Al-Youm 21 Oct 2012
The Nasr City Misdemeanor Court has postponed to November the trial of al-Umma satellite channel owner Sheikh Ahmed...
Hundreds of protesters gathering in front of the U.S. embassy headquarters during a protest against what they said was a film being produced in the United States that was insulting to the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and mocking him, Cairo, 11 September 2012. Protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy and some pulled down the American flag, and burnt it, then replace it with black flag.
'Innocence of Muslims' trial adjourned to 25 November
MENA 21 Oct 2012
  The Cairo Criminal Court postponed on Sunday the trial in absentia of eight defendants accused of producing the...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room during a brief statement on ongoing debt ceiling negotiations with congressional leaders, Washington, DC July 19, 2011. Obama said a proposal offered by the bipartisan group, the
US State Department talks Egypt aid with Congress
Egypt Independent 10 Oct 2012
The US State Department is in talks with the Congress to unblock US$450 million of economic aid promised to Egypt, as...