Egyptian journalists jailed for 'insulting president'

Two Egyptian journalists have been jailed for a year for publishing a story about a man who accused the president Hosni Mubarak of misusing government money. The court found Ibrahim Issa, the editor of the weekly paper Al Dustour, and a reporter, Sahar Zaki, guilty of "insulting and harming the president of the republic and the people of Egypt". The story, published in April, concerned a complaint by Said Mohammed Abdallah, that Mubarak had misused 500m Egyptian pounds (£47m) during the privatisation of several public companies. Abdallah was given the same sentence. (Via AND - 10 most recent)