Egyptian author sentenced to 2-year jail term for sexually explicit writings
The author was produced before the court after a man complained that the novel affected him, increasing his heart beat and making him sick, reports said.
Post the sentence, rights activists in the country have expressed their dismay as Naji became the fourth intellectual to be punished for his work in recent months.
The Guardian quoted Mai El-Sadany, an expert on Egyptian law at the Robert F Kennedy Center for Human Rights in Washington DC.saying: “Today’s verdict is a travesty for freedom of expression and justice more broadly. It comes in the context of a broader crackdown which has brought us the detention of academics at airports, the harassment of cartoonists for their artwork, and the raiding of publishing houses.”
According to media reports, the jail term of Naji is the fourth against an Egyptian writer or artist in the recent times.
Image: Naji in court as tweeted by Ramy Yaacoub, a political analyst and his friend. w
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