448 Jail Sentence for Opposition Party Leader

A court in Assiut today convicted Mahmud Abaza, leader of the opposition al-Wafd Party, to a month in prison on charges of criminal libel. Anwar al-Hawari, the editor of al-Wafd, and the paper’s Assiut correspondent, Yunis Darwish, also got one month in jail in connection with a story alleging prominent businessmen illegally annexed land held by the Ministry of Religious Endowments. All three were convicted in absentia, and are free, pending appeal.

Eleven Egyptian journalists have received jail sentences since September.

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