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The Supreme State Security Prosecution had ordered the suspects be remanded under a 15-day investigative custody.

The lawyers for the suspects, including 'Āsim Qandīl and Yūsuf al-Sayīd, have offered a portfolio of documents for the judge who upheld the decision to have them in jail for further investigations.

The lawyers contested the decision that comprised 27 suspects but did not cover 'Abd al-Fattāh and blogger Michael 'Ādil. [Ahmad Shalabī, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Dec. 16, p. 3] Read the original text in Arabic

[Reviewer's Note: A report of the same content was published by al-Ahrām, Ibrāhīm Fahmī and Sabrī al-Mūjī, Dec. 16, p. 40, but it contained a mistake, probably a misprint, that the prosecution released 72 suspects, while the actual number is 27] Read the original text in Arabic

Eight human rights organizations expressed in a statement denunciation of the decision passed by a military court against blogger Michael Nabīl to two years' imprisonment and a fine of LE200 (roughly $45) plus defense counsel fees of LE300 (roughly $50). 

The statement read that the Nabīl case fundamentally undermines the rights to freedoms of expression and to a fair trial. [Muhammad Hijāb, Al-Ahrām, Dec. 16, p. 40] Read the original text in Arabic

In an opinion piece, published in the form of a news report, the author says that the lines of Muslim and Christian voters in Sūl village, which several months ago had been the core of news over a fitnah tā'fīyah there, are the best answer to some parties that spark strives. 

Makram Salīm Markibī said he was standing next in line to his Muslim friend. "I will vote for our fellow villager who runs on the Islamists' list," said Markibī, a Copt. 

Sūl has been the scene of sectarian violence by some fanatic young men who destroyed a church in the village, followed by protests by Copts in front of the Egyptian TV & Radio office in Maspero. 

The armed forces re-built the church in a record time of not more than a month. ['Abūd Māhir, Al-Ahrām, Dec. 16, p. 4] Read the original text in Arabic