... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
journalist on charges of inciting "torture" during the 2011 uprising, judicial sources said Wednesday.
A date has yet to be fixed for the trial of the eight, who also include a former minister, the sources said.
The group has been accused of "inciting the torture of a lawyer in Tahrir Square after accusing him of being an officer of the state security" during the uprising that ousted longtime president Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
in January 2011.
The defendants include Mahmoud El-Khodeiry, a former judge close to the Moslem Brüderbund, Osama Yassin, youth minister under the government of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the
One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
, and Ahmed Mansour, an anchor with Al-Jazeera television.