Comments on: Talaat Sadat’s trial postponed http://arabist.net/arabawy/2006/10/11/talaat-sadats-trial-postponed/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:44:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Talaat Sadat sentenced to one year in prison at 3arabawy http://arabist.net/arabawy/2006/10/11/talaat-sadats-trial-postponed/#comment-581 Talaat Sadat sentenced to one year in prison at 3arabawy Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:22:26 +0000 http://arabist.net/arabawy/2006/10/11/talaat-sadats-trial-postponed/#comment-581 [...] A military court sentenced today MP Talaat el-Sadat (nephew of Egypt’s late dictator Anwar el-Sadat) to one year in prison with hard labor, for “defaming” Egypt’s army in a TV interview where he claimed his uncle was killed in a conspiracy involving the Egyptian army, and foreign intelligence services. Eight rights group had denounced the trial saying it’s violating the right to free speech. [...] [...] A military court sentenced today MP Talaat el-Sadat (nephew of Egypt’s late dictator Anwar el-Sadat) to one year in prison with hard labor, for “defaming” Egypt’s army in a TV interview where he claimed his uncle was killed in a conspiracy involving the Egyptian army, and foreign intelligence services. Eight rights group had denounced the trial saying it’s violating the right to free speech. [...]

]]> By: “Egypt’s rights defenders are NOT afraid of the army” at 3arabawy http://arabist.net/arabawy/2006/10/11/talaat-sadats-trial-postponed/#comment-337 “Egypt’s rights defenders are NOT afraid of the army” at 3arabawy Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:45:20 +0000 http://arabist.net/arabawy/2006/10/11/talaat-sadats-trial-postponed/#comment-337 [...] My friend was fuming, as the NYT report totally ignored the fact that eight rights group issued a statement denouncing the trial. “We drafted this statement precisely because I didn’t want anyone, let alone the NYT, to say Egypt’s rights defenders are afraid of the army,” my friend wrote me in an email exchange. [...] [...] My friend was fuming, as the NYT report totally ignored the fact that eight rights group issued a statement denouncing the trial. “We drafted this statement precisely because I didn’t want anyone, let alone the NYT, to say Egypt’s rights defenders are afraid of the army,” my friend wrote me in an email exchange. [...]

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