CAIRO — A prosecutor on Sunday charged one of Egypt’s most - TopicsExpress



          

CAIRO — A prosecutor on Sunday charged one of Egypt’s most prominent liberal intellectuals with insulting the judiciary because he posted a message on Twitter criticizing a court ruling against three American nonprofits that promote democracy. The intellectual, Amr Hamzawy, a political scientist and former lawmaker, was charged along with two dozen others — including liberals, Islamists, and the deposed president, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. Coming a day after the adoption of a new Constitution, the charges offered a glimpse of how the military-led government may apply the Constitution’s porous free-speech provisions and suggested that it may intensify its pressure on dissenters.... nytimes/2014/01/20/world/middleeast/egypt-says-twitter-post-by-liberal-was-crime.html
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:34:57 +0000

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