Egypt: Christian Woman Sentenced to Three Years

I have previously written, e.g. here, about the problem Egyptian Christian converts have getting their religion correctly stated on their id cards.

This report is about an Egyptian woman who's father briefly converted to Islam in the 1960s:-

An Egyptian Christian woman has been jailed for three years because her father's brief conversion to Islam 45 years ago made her legally a Muslim while her official papers said she was Christian, her lawyer said on Thursday.
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In 1996, the man who forged Ibrahim's documents was detained for falsifying dozens of documents and confessed to changing Ibrahim's papers.

Authorities detained Ibrahim and also informed his daughter that on paper, Ibrahim was still a Muslim and therefore so was she. Children in Egypt automatically take their father's religion.

Under Egyptian law it is also illegal for a Muslim woman to marry a Christian man.

She was charged with "providing false information on official documents" for stating she was Christian on her marriage certificate in 1982.

After a lengthy trial, she was sentenced to three years in absentia in 2000, but the case was subsequently dropped.

She was detained again in August this year and sentenced to three years after just one brief court session, her lawyer said.

It appears that this woman did not know that she was legally a Muslim until 1996, however, she is being prosecuted for stating her religion as Christian when she married in 1982!