Tag: courts

Murad Vs. Bloggers

Posted on By 3arabawy

The Administrative Court decided Tuesday afternoon to transfer the lawsuit to block 21 blogs and websites that “harm Egypt’s national interests and defame Hosni Mubarak” to the Sixth District Court, to be looked into sometime in April.

The court session ended in a circus, with judge Abdel Fattah Murad who filed the lawsuit requesting the blocking, assaulted blogger Rami Siyam as he was video-recording the judge leaving the court room.

The judge, who showed up today in the company of at least three bodyguards, failed to take the mobile phone from Rami, who chased him with his mobile as the judge was leaving the building.

Tuesday: Administrative Court looks into blocking 21 blogs and websites

Posted on By 3arabawy

The Administrative Court will look into the lawsuit filed by Judge Abdel Fattah Murad to block 21 blogs and websites, on Tuesday, 9am, claiming they “harm Egypt’s national security, defame Egypt’s image abroad, and insult Hosni.”

The trial is at the State Council building in Murad St, Giza, 2nd Floor, Hall #11.

PLEASE SHOW UP! THE EGYPTIAN BLOGOSPHERE NEEDS YOUR SOLIDARITY AND SUPPORT.

Judge fines Mubarak, Adly $5000

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From AFP:

Judge fines Mubarak, minister $5,000
13/3/2007
CAIRO: An Egyptian court has ordered President Hosni Mubarak and his interior minister to pay more than $5,000 in compensation to a man jailed for seven years without charge, security and judicial sources said on Tuesday.
The administrative court in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria on Monday approved Hamed Yassin Hamed’s request for compensation from the president and Interior Minister Habib Al-Adli for being kept in prison for seven years.
The government is appealing the decision.
Hamed was arrested in Alexandria in 1989 on suspicion of having  links with Islamist groups and then released in 1996, without ever  having been formally charged or appearing before a court, said the  judicial source.
Human rights organizations have repeatedly criticized the Egyptian government for “arbitrary” and prolonged detentions of suspected Islamists, often without charge.