AN unmarried Egyptian couple caught kissing in public were sentenced this week to one year in prison under Egypt’s morality laws, judicial officials said on Saturday. Noha Ali and her boyfriend Magdi Abderahim were locked in a passionate embrace outside the courthouse in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria in May 1997, oblivious to everything and everyone around them. A prosecutor who witnessed the kiss alerted colleagues who lodged legal proceedings against them for committing ”an indecent act in public,” a judicial official said. It took the court nearly two years to hand down its verdict but the two are appealing.