Egyptian Chronicles: Another jail order for Egyptian Journalists !!

I do not know if that is going to be on a daily basis , I mean every time I open an Egyptian website I find the news that an Egyptian court somewhere ordered to jail Journalists and chief editor of some newspaper with fine to be paid !!

This is in less than a week , oh man

There was another court order today to jail another group of journalists ,the order came afternoon ,I do not know when ,but it turned out that the Agouza court decided to jail the publisher of "Sawt El-Oma" , the Chief in editor of the same newspaper and three journalists in it for two months and a fine equals to 100 E.P each

It turned out there is some businessman called "Ali Mohamed Ibrahim" sued the newspaper from defame and spreading lies about him , I do not know by this particular newspaper does not publish anything related to corruption and fraud cases except with hard evidence of documents

This is not the first case independent "Sawt El-Oma" being sued for , I already spoke about the sister of El-Dostor before

Already it is Chief in editor "Wael Al-Abrashi" is facing another court

order of jail for 4 years in the famous trial on the first day of Ramadan and I remember that last year there was a case against him and journalist in the newspaper regarding the corrupted Judges lists in the elections , yet he was lucky enough to win it

That is first time the court orders to jail the publisher of the Newspaper "Mr.Essam Fahmy"

The three other journalists in the newspaper are :

Hana Moussa
Reda Ali
Manal Abd El-Latif

I do not know but i feel that this business man has an NDP membership card in his pocket

The timing is striking it came in less than 72 hours from the other court order to jail the Wafad newspaper journalists for two years and less than two weeks from the other court order to jail 4 chief in editors including Al-Abrashi for 4 years not to mention the older court order to jail Ibrahim Eissa

And they say that these days are the best for journalism !!

In All countries , defaming cases against newspapers usually has maximum penalty is fine , not jail

I believe this is just another chapter from the witch hunt against Egyptian journalists !!

You do not need to think too much to say that this is a punishment for "Fahmy" and "Al-Abrashi" for what they publish weekly in their newspaper from corruption exposure to police torture watch to NDP criticism

The Egyptian regime thinks it will makes them shut up , on the contrary it will make them speak more and more louder and they won't be alone the people will be in their side even silently and the outside world will be in their side , already the United States criticized the jail of journalists , I am waiting for the EU comment too

by the way Emirates decided to cancel the jail penalty from the the publishing crimes law :) this is the United Arab Emirates with my all respect it does not have a long journalistic history like Egypt , our first newspaper "The Egyptian Chronicles" was published in the time of Mohamed Ali !! And they cancel the jail penalty !!