An Egyptian court on
Thursday sentenced three Coptic Christian teenagers to five years in
jail for contempt of Islam after they appeared in a video reciting
Muslim prayers.A judge in the central Egyptian province of Minya also sent a fourth defendant, aged 15, to a juvenile detention centre.
Defence lawyer Maher Naguib said the four had not intended to insult Islam in the video, but merely to mock the beheadings carried out by jihadists of the Islamic State group (ISIS).
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