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The chief editor of Al-Shaab urged the government to allow the re-opening of the paper following the court’s rejection of the last two government appeals. He claimed that political circumstances were now suitable for the instant re-opening of Al-Shaab, as proven by the Culture Ministry crisis. This...
Some members of the Islamic bloc are asking questions about the Ministry of the Interior, the head of the Supreme Council of the Press and the head of the Shura Council’s failure to execute court judgments in the case of Al-Shaab newspaper. The deputy general secretary of the Labor Party said that...
The author claims members of the Gama’at al-Islamia and the Jihad, who have been involved in terrorism, are active in the Labor Party. He therefore sounds the alarm, an warns that the country’s democracy is in danger and that viruses of sickness are spreading in the political atmosphere.. without...
Dozens of journalists staged a sit-in at the headquarters of the Press Syndicate on Sunday afternoon to protest the continuing imprisonment of Magdi Hussein, chief editor of Al-Shaab, mouthpiece of the Islamist-oriented Labor party, and journalist Salah Bedewi. The two are serving two-year jail...
Architect Hussein Sabbour, a colleague of Minister of Agriculture Youssef Wali who had been attacked by Islamist paper el-Shaab, announced on 18 October that he would file suit against the Islamist newspaper Al Shaab which accused him of improprieties.
Magdy Hussein, editor-in-chief of Al-Shaab, has now been sentenced to two years in prison for libel. The sentence is the result of the campaign of Al-Shaab of over a year against Youssef Wali, Minister of Agriculture. Hulsman describes Hussein’s views on Islam.
Some 200 Egyptian journalists staged a sit-in at the headquarters of their syndicate on August 21, to protest the imprisonment of three of their colleagues and call for the abrogation of laws they said stifle press freedom and inhibit free speech.
Cairo times reviews the cases of journalists sentenced for liable and reviews Al-Destour’s
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