Egypt's Metro Comic Book Verdict Adjourned
The Qasr El Nil Court of Misdemeanors in Downtown Cairo was to issue its verdict in the Metro Comic Book case today - July 18 - but this verdict was adjourned until October 3. Apparently this court's presiding judge is in his swimming suit somewhere enjoying his summer holiday.
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Egyptian Poet Sentenced to Three Years Imprisonment for Criticizing Mubarak Dictatorship
Ode to Egypt president lands clerk in jail
July 14, 2009
CAIRO (AFP) — An Egyptian civil servant who wrote a satirical poem about veteran President Hosni Mubarak has been jailed for three years after a colleague turned the villainous verses over to the authorities.
Mounir Said Hanna Marzuq was given the maximum sentence for insulting the head of state, a judicial source said on Tuesday, in one of the poems he wrote for friends in the hope that one day they would be turned into song.
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July 14, 2009
CAIRO (AFP) — An Egyptian civil servant who wrote a satirical poem about veteran President Hosni Mubarak has been jailed for three years after a colleague turned the villainous verses over to the authorities.
Mounir Said Hanna Marzuq was given the maximum sentence for insulting the head of state, a judicial source said on Tuesday, in one of the poems he wrote for friends in the hope that one day they would be turned into song.
Egyptian Court Upholds Comic Book Ban

Regulating freedom of expression?
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Egypt’s First “Graphic" comic book on trial, Jano Charbel attends
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