EGYPT COURT RULES AGAINST BLOCKING ACCESS TO 51 WEBSITES
January 4th 2008 19:56
The administrative court of Egypt’s state council has ruled against blocking access to 51 websites which judge Abdel Fattah Murad, the head of the Alexandria court, had accused of defaming and attacking the president.
A total of 21 sites, including Baheyya and Gharbeia, two popular blogs, and the site of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, were initially accused of attacking the president by Judge Murad on March 11 last year, after allegations circulated on the blogosphere that a book by the judge on the internet’s legal challenges had been plagiarised.
Judge Ahmed Hassaan, the head of the administrative court, refused to block the sites and denied that they had violated the constitution, as Murad had claimed.
- From MediaBlab
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