Middle East Focus: Egyptian Blogger Faces Military Court……
Egyptian Blogger Faces Military Court……
“Egyptian blogger faces military tribunal. Ahmad Mostafa, an engineering student at the University of Kafr el-Sheikh, stood before a military tribunal today on charges of "disseminating wrong information" and "tarnishing the image of the military" for a blog post he published online early last year. A verdict is expected tomorrow Monday. Mostafa was arrested on the orders of Egypt's Military Prosecutor last week in front of Kafr el-Sheikh University, located some 134 kms north of Cairo. Four days later, he was transferred to a Nasr City military court for trial, which began today. Prosecutors, while appointing state lawyers to defend Mostafa, did not notify his family of his arrest. In February 2009, on his Arabic-language blog Matha Assabak ya Watan ("What’s Wrong with my Homeland?"), Mostafa recounted the story of a student that had been forced to leave a military school in order to make room for another applicant……….”
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