Rights lawyer Gamal Eid was notified last night his interrogation (originally scheduled today Tuesday 1oam) by the Abbassiya Prosecutor, on charges of libel and blackmail, part of the fabricated accusations Judge Abdel Fattah Murad filed against Gamal and others, was postponed indefinitely.
Blogger Amr Gharbeia, however, was notified he is to be interrogated on Saturday.
The Abbassiya Prosecutor interrogated today blogger Amr Gharbeia on charges of libel, part of the crackdown on the blogosphere orchestrated by Judge Abdel Fattah Murad. The interrogation lasted for two hours and half, after which Amr was released on a LE200 bail.
The prosecutor tried to force Amr into handing out the IP addresses of readers who posted comments on his blog, but Amr rightly refused.
The interrogation will be resumed next Tuesday with Amr, together with leftist lawyers Gamal Eid and Ahmad Seif el-Islam, against whom Judge Murad is trying to fabricate charges of blackmail.
The new list of 50 blogs Judge Abdel Fatth Murad wants to block, includes mine.
Interesting how the guy lists the blogs he wants the government to block. According to Murad, our blogs and websites “harm Egypt’s national interests and defame President Hosni Mubarak.” However, the judge usually doesn’t list the blog url. He chooses the urls of postings about him. When you look at the list, you’ll find a posting of mine, listed as number 33. In that posting, I ran one of HR-Info’s statements on the case. So our judge is basically after anyone who’s exposing his fabrications and lies.
Read Nora Younis’s post on Egypt’s War on Blogs.