Another Egypt editor faces trial over Mubarak rumours

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2007

CAIRO (AFP) — Another Egyptian newspaper editor is facing prosecution for writing about President Hosni Mubarak's health, a judicial source said on Tuesday, a day after Washington voiced concern over such trials.

A lawyer brought the case against Al-Badil's editor Mohammed Sayyed Said accusing him of "spreading false news" concerning the state of 79-year-old Mubarak's health.

Lawyer Samir al-Shishtawi, who filed the case with the public prosecutor, is also behind the trial on the same charge of another newspaper editor, Ibrahim Eissa, due to start on October 1.

A Cairo court earlier this month sentenced Eissa and three other journalists to one year in prison and fined them each 20,000 Egyptian pounds (3,500 dollars) for "harming public interest."

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