A court in Egypt has sentenced Christian citizen Augustinos Samaan to five years of hard labour after he was found guilty of the crimes of “dejection of religion” and “abuse of social networks”. Samaan, who ran a YouTube channel where he published contents comparing Christianity and Islam, was arrested on 1 October 2025. Since then, he was held in renewed pretrial detention for 15 days until his conviction in January, without his defence being a…
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A court in Egypt has sentenced Christian citizen Augustinos Samaan to five years of hard labour after he was found guilty of the crimes of “dejection of religion” and “abuse of social networks”. Samaan, who ran a YouTube channel where he published contents comparing Christianity and Islam, was arrested on 1 October 2025. Since then, he was held in renewed pretrial detention for 15 days until his conviction in January, without his defence being a…