The International Media Council of the Next Century Foundation is convinced that the honesty or dishonesty of media affects the mental health of the world. Freedom of expression is vital as a means of permitting all views to flourish peacefully. It is a cliché that the price of this freedom must be continual vigilance – in particular vigilance to identify and expose the encouragement of malice, war and the incident of hate speech and image.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Egyptian Foreign Minister halts imprisonment of Al Dustour Editor
20 March 2008, Index on Censorship report that Ibrahim Eissa, editor of Al Dustour was sentenced to two months in prison after publishing rumours about ex President Mubarek’s health. However in a bizarre turn of events, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry requested Eissa not to turn himself in because it was realized that this imprisonment would reflect badly on the Mubarek regime.
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