The Egyptian authorities have banned publication of the Sunday edition of a pro-government newspaper for questioning the security apparatus\u2019s failure to arrest a former government minister convicted of corruption.<\/p>\n
According to a statement released by private daily Al-Bawaba, publication of the paper\u2019s Sunday edition was banned because it featured a news report on the failure of Egypt\u2019s security apparatus to arrest Habib al-Adly, a former interior minister who served under autocratic President Hosni Mubarak.<\/p>\n
Mubarak was forced to step down as president following an 18-day popular uprising in early 2011.<\/p>\n
After having played a central role in Mubarak\u2019s repressive regime from 1997 to 2011, Al-Adly was slapped with a seven-year jail sentence in April — along with millions of dollars in fines — after being convicted of embezzling public funds while serving as interior minister.<\/p>\n
Al-Bawaba said that the state-run Al-Ahram publishing house had refused to print its Sunday edition because \u201ccertain parties\u201d — who it did not identify — had \u201cdemanded the deletion of a front-page report about al-Adly\u2019s continued ability to escape punishment\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s news report was meant to coincide with recent parliamentary efforts to question Magdi Abdel Ghaffar, Egypt\u2019s current Interior Minister, regarding al-Adly\u2019s fate and the failure to bring him to justice.<\/p>\n
The newspaper has reportedly called on President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to intervene in the situation with a view to \u201cenforcing the law and protecting [the newspaper] from blatant interference by parties who are trying to conceal their career failures\u201d.<\/p>\n
Amid steadily mounting criticism, Egypt\u2019s security apparatus insists it is doing everything in its power to find and arrest al-Adly, who disappeared shortly after his conviction in April- worldbullwtin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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