According to the law of “contempt for religions” … what is the punishment for “Joe Hani”, accused of insulting the Messenger?

Today, Wednesday, the security services arrested a teacher in the Ismailia governorate, known as haraki “Joe Hani”, in the context of the accusations attributed to him of insulting the Messenger Muhammad, through social networks.

The conversations broadcast by “Joe Hani”, who insulted Messenger Muhammad and despised the Islamic religion, issued a hashtag and demanded his trial, as the “Monitoring and Analysis” unit of the Attorney General’s Office supervised a wide circulation on the sites of social networks of an image of a text conversation attributed to a person residing in the Ismailia governorate. The crime of contempt for the Islamic religion by insulting the Messenger of God, and by presenting the matter to the prosecutor of the Public Ministry, ordering an urgent investigation of the incident.

What is the crime of “contempt for religion”?

Under Egyptian law, the crime of “contempt of religion” is achieved through the occurrence of the criminal act and the availability of the intention regardless of whether or not the desired objective of this act is achieved.

The crime of “contempt for religion” is carried out on the basis of two pillars: The first material pillar is the exploitation of revealed religions to promote and favor through the use of any means of propagating extremist ideas under the protection of a camouflaged religion or misleading.

Regarding the second pillar, morality: it means the availability of criminal intent and the direction of the will to despise or degrade divine religions, arouse discord or damage national unity and social peace, so that those belonging to a certain religion They can go out to enter another religion and embrace it, that is, the area of ​​legal protection of the text of that article. It is national unity and social peace, not monotheistic religions or sects that belong to it.

What is the penalty for Joe Hany if found guilty of “contempt for religion”?

Joe Hanyi or anyone can be judged just because he published an article, photographs, drawings or any other means of publication, or any talk about a religion or rituals of divine religions, and this speech had a different opinion or a different view of it. that was established in him.

Article 98 of the Egyptian Penal Code stipulates the following: “Whoever exploits religion to promote or encourage words or writing or any other means to generate ideas will be punished with imprisonment for a period of not less than 6 months and not more than 5 years or one fine of not less than 500 pounds or 1,000 pounds Extremist with the intention of provoking sedition, denigrating or disparaging one of the monotheistic religions or sects belonging to it, or damaging the national unity or social peace.

Article 160 of the Egyptian Penal Code establishes that “Without prejudice to any more severe sanction, a penalty of three years in prison and a fine of not less than 1,000 pounds and not more than 5,000 pounds shall be imposed on anyone who interferes in the establishment of rituals. of a denomination, religion, celebration, symbols or other things. It has the sanctity of people of a sect or group of people “.

In the events of sedition or destabilization of national unity, the aggravated penalty will be for a period of 7 years, without prejudice to any more severe penalty established in another law, the penalty will be imprisonment of 3 years for anyone who violates the sanctity of the tombs or cemeteries or their filth, and the penalty shall be the imprisonment of no lesser duration. For 5 years if any of the above crimes were committed for terrorist purposes.