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Egypt court sentences 8 to death over prophet film

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Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center is among eight people an Egyptian court has convicted in absentia on charges linked to an anti-Islam film that had sparked riots in parts of the Muslim world.

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An Egyptian court convicted in absentia Wednesday seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor, sentencing them to death on charges linked to an anti-Islam film that had sparked riots in parts of the Muslim world. The case was seen as largely symbolic because the defendants, most of whom live in the United States, are all outside Egypt and are thus unlikely to ever face the verdict.