Judge Abdel Fattah Mourad, who’s filing a lawsuit demanding the closure of 21 blogs and website claiming they “defame Egypt’s image, insult the president, and harm national interests,” is now escalating his campaign, filing a new lawsuit against Leftist lawyers Ahmad Seif and Gamal Eid, the directors of the Hisham Mubarak Law Center and HR-Info respectively, as well as blogger Amr Gharbeia. The three are summoned to the North Cairo Prosecutor’s office on Thursday, for interrogation on charges of “blackmail.”

Click on the scanned copy of the prosecution summoning order sent to Gamal Eid, to read more details…