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Wednesday
28Mar2007

Mourad Vs. Bloggers

The Administrative Court decided Tuesday afternoon to transfer the lawsuit to block 21 blogs and websites that "harm Egypt's national interests and defame Hosni Mubarak" to the Sixth District Court, to be looked into sometime in April.

The court session ended in a circus, with judge Abdel Fattah Mourad who filed the lawsuit requesting the blocking, assaulted blogger Rami Siyam as he was video-recording the judge leaving the court room.

The judge, who showed up today in the company of at least three bodyguards, failed to take the mobile phone from Rami, who chased him with his mobile as the judge was leaving the building...

(Videos uploaded by Malek)

Reader Comments (2)

[...] blogger Hossam El Hamalawy reports a bizarre incident during the hearing of a case lodged by a judge to block 21 blogs and websites that “harm [...]

[...] those who are not familiar with this case, please go here , here , here , here and here for background information. For those who are, this is what happend [...]

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