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Three Egyptian journalists jailed

Posted on 25/09/200714/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Mubarak’s crackdown on the free press continues:

A Egyptian court has sentenced three journalists to two years in jail for “damaging the image of justice”.
Anwar al-Hawari, the editor of Al-Wafd, a newspaper for the opposition party of the same name, was jailed for publishing “untrue information which damaged the reputation of the justice system and the justice ministry”, the court ruled.
The two other journalists were Mahmud Ghallab and Amir Othman.
The three did not attend the hearing and remain free on bail, pending an appeal.
A judicial source has said that they were also ordered to pay small fines.
The judge had accepted the case filed by several Egyptian lawyers after Al-Wafd had quoted Mamduh Mari, the justice minister, as saying that 90 per cent of Egyptian judges were incompetent.

Judge wants 50 blogs and websites banned

Posted on 10/05/200728/12/2020 By 3arabawy

This is getting insane. Judge Murad is filing new lawsuits, and adding 29 more websites and blogs to the list of internet sites he wants banned. Here’s a statement from HR-Info:

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) stated that the judge Abdel Fatah Murad added – in addition to the 21 websites he demanded blocking and appealed before the Administrative Judiciary Court – 29 more websites, in which the total became 50 websites.
Moreover, the judge brings a new suit against Gamal Eid HRinfo’s Executive Director, Ahmad Seif El Islam Executive Director of Hisham Mubarak law Center and Amr Gharbia administrator of the celebrate blog “Holiat Saheb Al-Ashgar”. The Public Prosecution undertakes the investigation and the judge accused the three of blackmailing him and demanding 50 thousands pounds.
On Saturday 5 May 2007, the Administrative Judiciary Court has continued investigating in the suit of blocking 21 blogs and human rights and news websites on the internet. Now the judge who sued amended his demands by adding 29 websites to the previous list though the total now is 50 websites (the complete list of websites attached).
HRinfo surprisingly find out that its Executive Director Gamal Eid, Executive Director of Hisham Mubarak Law Center Ahmad Seif El Islam and the celebrate blogger Amr Gharbia summoned for investigation in a new fabricated case sued by the judge Abdel Fatah Murad. He said that the three blackmailed him and forced him to publish information defaming Egypt’s reputation.
The following are the three cases are the total number of cases sued by the judge against HRinfo and its supporters:
Defamation against “Gamal Eid, Alaa Seif and Manal Bahey El Dein Hassan”
Blocking 50 websites (human rights – news – blogs)
Blackmailing against “Gamal Eid, Ahmad Seif and Amr Gharbia”

The statement could be found in Arabic here.

Murad’s war on bloggers continues

Posted on 08/05/200709/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Judge Abdel Fattah Murad, who’s filing a lawsuit demanding the closure of 21 blogs and website claiming they “defame Egypt’s image, insult the president, and harm national interests,” is now escalating his campaign, filing a new lawsuit against Leftist lawyers Ahmad Seif and Gamal Eid, the directors of the Hisham Mubarak Law Center and HR-Info respectively, as well as blogger Amr Gharbeia. The three are summoned to the North Cairo Prosecutor’s office on Thursday, for interrogation on charges of “blackmail.”