LOS ANGELES - A California man behind an anti-Islam film that stoked violent protests in the Muslim world was due in court in Los Angeles on  Wednesday for a hearing on whether he violated his probation on a bank fraud  conviction and should be sent back to prison.

The Egyptian-born man,  known publicly as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, has been in federal custody since  late last month and was due to appear before a US district court judge under  his legal name, Mark Basseley Youssef, court papers showed.

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