Alternate headline: The only man jailed in America for violating sharia blasphemy laws to be freed from federal custody.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A California man behind an anti-Muslim film that led to violence in parts of the Middle East is due to be freed from federal custody in a separate case, an official said Monday.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 56, is scheduled for release on Thursday from a halfway house in Southern California where he’s been held since May, said Ed Ross, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Nakoula, whose name in court files is Mark Basseley Youssef, was sentenced in November to a year in federal prison for using false names in violation of a probation order in a bank fraud case. That case was not related to the film.
He told Fox News earlier this year that he was proud of the film and was fighting against the “terrorism culture,” not religion.
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