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Court proceedings started Sunday against Howaida Taha, an Al Jazeera journalist arrested while producing a documentary on police torture in Egypt. She's charged with harming national interests and faces five years in prison.
Meanwhile, Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer has been in jail since November awaiting trial, charged with criticizing Islam and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt steps on the press as it backtracks on democratic reform
Seeded on Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:58 AM EST
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thanks for bringing this to the vine. not many people know how undemocratic egypt's government really is.
so many reformists there, it is a troubling situation.
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