· February, 2010

Stories about Egypt from February, 2010

Egypt: Appeal Court cancels The Sentence against blogger Wael Abbas

  20 February 2010

Egyptian appeal court has acquitted blogger Wael Abbas after being sentenced to six months by a lower court. The sentence came last November after an altercation on April 2009 between Abbas and his neighbor and Ahmed Maher Aglan and his police officer brother Ashraf Aglan, for accessing the internet. The...

Interview with blogger Wael Abbas and call for support!

  2 February 2010

On November 11th, 2009, prominent Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas has been sentenced in absentia to 6 months in jail and LE 500 pounds (92 USD) as a judiciary bail, as a lawsuit was filed against him by a citizen and his police officer brother on charges of damaging an internet...

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