An Egyptian court has <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6385849.stm">sentenced a blogger to four years in prison</A> for insulting Islam and the president.

Abdel Kareem Soliman's trial was the first time that a blogger had been prosecuted in Egypt.

He had used his web log to criticize the country's top Islamic institution, al-Azhar university and President Hosni Mubarak, whom he called a dictator.