{"id":35850,"date":"2012-04-26T17:33:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=35850"},"modified":"2017-01-09T16:17:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T16:17:12","slug":"egypt-adel-imam-sentence-blasphemy-sentence-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=35850","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Adel Imam blasphemy sentence dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Cairo court today dismissed a three-month jail sentence handed down to popular comic actor Adel Iman, <a href=\"http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/News\/40231.aspx\">Al Ahram reports<\/a>. Imam had faced jail after a case was brought against him for &#8220;defaming Islam&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0He had been accused\u00a0by Islamist lawyer\u00a0Asran Mansour, who accused the actor of offending political figures and the religion. Imam&#8217;s lawyer\u00a0<a title=\"BBC: Egyptian court upholds actor Adel Imam's sentence\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-17832703\" target=\"_blank\">argued<\/a>\u00a0that the his client&#8217;s films were &#8220;certified&#8221; by by authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cairo court today dismissed a three-month jail sentence handed down to popular comic actor Adel Iman, Al Ahram reports. Imam had faced jail after a case was brought against him for &#8220;defaming Islam&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0He had been accused\u00a0by Islamist lawyer\u00a0Asran Mansour, who accused the actor of offending political figures and the religion. Imam&#8217;s lawyer\u00a0argued\u00a0that the his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4060,585,581],"tags":[4596,53,7376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35850"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79126,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35850\/revisions\/79126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}