An Egyptian court will hear tomorrow the first appeal of Ibrahim Issa, the editor of independent daily newspaper Ad-Dustour who was sentenced to six months in prison for printing rumors of President Mubarak's bad health, according to the Arabic Network for Human Rights.
Ad-Dustour also launched a new web site today. The newspaper regularly attacks the government, and according to the Arabic Network for Human Rights, the ruling party has brought at least 35 suits against the paper.
Issa, (or Eissa, depending on where you see it, as names transliterated from Arabic are often spelled in different ways in English,) was accused of harming the state's economy after Ad-Dustour printed rumors circulating about the elderly president's possible illness or death after his long absence from public appearance last summer. The government said this caused foreign investors to take their capital out of Egypt. Mubarak turned 80 on May 4.
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