Egypt Editor Charged With Insulting President

A Cairo court has ordered the chief editor of an Egyptian daily detained pending trial on charges of insulting the country’s president and “spreading lies.”

The case against Islam Afifi, chief editor of the privately-owned el-Dustour, is one among several lawsuits leveled mainly by Egypt’s Islamists against several journalists and TV presenters, accusing them of inflammatory coverage and inciting the public against the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s largest political group.

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