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Wednesday, the prosecutor-general referred Abdel-Halim Qandil, editor of independent
weekly Sawt al-Umma, to the North of
Giza prosecutor for official investigation, according to news
Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 23, 2012--Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsi banned pre-trial detention of journalists charged with press-related offenses today in a decree issued just hours after a Cairo criminal court jailed an editor pending trial on charges of insulting the president, according to news reports. ...
24, authorities halted production of the
Saturday edition of the independent weekly Sawt al-Umma, while the daily
Rose al-Youssef was prevented from printing a page
Mubarak in February. Production of
the Saturday edition of the independent weekly Sawt al-Umma was halted, while
the daily Rose al-Youssef was prevented from printing
charges against Wael al-Abrashy, the editor-in-chief of the weekly Sawt Al-Umma, and reporter Samar al-Dawi under Article 177 of the penal code
nbsp;Wael al-Abrashy, the editor-in-chief of the weekly Sawt al-Umma, and Samar al-Dawi, a reporter for the weekly.
Hamouda of the weekly Al-Fajr, Wael el-Abrashi of the weekly Sawt al-Umma, and
Abdel Halim Kandil of the weekly Al-Karama.
A principal in
s
Liberation Movement and other opposition groups.
Three of the journalists from Sawt al-Umma returned
to the newspaper’s offices where police detained them along with
the daily Al-Dustour; Wael al-Abrashy, former editor of the weekly Sawt Al-Umma; Adel Hammouda, editor of the weekly Al-Fajr; and Abdel Halim Kandil,
take us by surprise," said Essam Eissa, lawyer for Al-Dustour
and Sawt al-Umma. "We have gotten used to seeing Egyptian courts
overthrow jail terms while
