Friday, September 28, 2007

More bad news for Egyptian Press

I do not from where shall I start ,as I said earlier in my post regarding the new court's order against Al-Abrashi ,it became a daily routine

Well I will start from yesterday

it turned out the head of Journalism syndication Mr. Jalal Araf Jalal Araf suffered yesterday a heart attack in his office there and had to be transferred to I.C and there is till now. The heart attack came after one hell of a week where several journalists faced jail creating a big challenge for the syndication

Araf had the heart attack after receiving the news about the new court order against Al-Abrashi , of course not because of that particular news but because of the stress itself , the man could not take it anymore

Well thank God it  reached to this extent only because if he had  received the court order of today his heart could have stopped

What is the court order of today ??

Ibrahim Eissa ,the chief in editor of El-Dostor Daily is going to stand in front of the high state security court !!

Yes for the first time in the history he is going to stand in front of this high state security court which does not have an appeal option !!

May be it is not the first time in history of Egyptian Press Mustafa Amin stood in front of a military court for even worse alleged charge than Eissa which was Espionage to the United States

Is not that just refreshing ?? It is one way ticket for Ibrahim Eissa to jail !! of course unless the miraculous presidential interfere comes in the last second to save the day as the

President promised that there will be no journalist behind bars in his era

By the way this was expected yesterday Eissa and others in other newspapers hinted to it but it was not a confirmed thing until today

The day's news did not stop here

In respond the Chief in editors of the independent and party newspapers decided to not to publish their newspapers on Sunday the 7th of October 2007 , the daily newspapers will not be published on that day and the weekly newspapers will not be published in their days as an objection move against the jail of the journalists in attempt to escalate the case

They gathered today down town in the headquarters of the Arabic Nasserite Newspaper and took this decision

I believe we also should do the same and boycott the official newspapers too on that day insh Allah

We still with the news of her majesty on the 27/9/2007 , in the same time ,there was a protest in solidarity with the journalists on the Stairs of the Syndication of Journalism , a very popular spot for protests , already as far as I received from news and alerts the anti-riots surrounded the area popular downtown in away that made impossible to come and go as usual ,they cracked down the protest and as far as I know some people were arrested , that was only from two hours ago ,I do not how this night will end

Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday , the start of the weekend

2 comments:

  1. egyptian press is facing the hardest challenge ever, and if this crackdown continues i think it would be appropriate to announce the death of press freedom, or say the death of egyptian press as a whole

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  2. @Sondos, dear we do not have already Press freedom in the first place , what we have is the phantom of press freedom , Press Freedom died from a very long time since the glorious revolution in 1952

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