Al-Ayyam Editor on Trial [Archives:2000/20/Local News]

Last Wednesday 10.5.2000 editor-in-chief of Al-Ayyam, Hisham Basha Rahil, was summoned to court. He was accused of several charges including a phone conference held between him and Mostafa Abo Kamel known for “Abo Hamzah”. The conference was published in the newspaper last year in the mid of August.
In the session, the court refused a request presented by the prosecution to publish the sessions’ procedures after the defendant’s lawyer objected that as it is against all the national as well as international laws. Then, the session was put off to 31 May.
It is worth noting that the official media is launching an extensive hostile campaign against Al-Ayyam newspaper due to news items published, especially those pertaining to the Public Committees formed recently.

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