Today: A Motion to Stay Ahmed Naji’s Two-year Prison Sentence for His Novel ‘Using Life’

Today: A Motion to Stay Ahmed Naji’s Two-year Prison Sentence for His Novel ‘Using Life’

Loading

Today at Bulaq Abu Al-Aila Misdemeanour Court, supporters are gathering to attend a court session for imprisoned Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji, jailed for the excerpt of his Using Life published in Akhbar al-Adab literary magazine:

UPDATE: The request to the court has been rejected.

Supporters have asked those in Egypt to gather outside the court:

13654331_1787871371448332_8893218524307007980_nWe invite all writers, journalists, and those interested in freedom of expression and creativity to attend the Bulaq Abu Al-Aila Misdemeanour court session scheduled for Saturday, July 16 to hear the defense’s motion for a stay of the two year sentence issued against writer #AhmedNaji for his novel “Use of Life.”

The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) had filed a motion for a stay of execution in the case. In late April, Naji’s defense team also filed an appeal before the Court of Cassation against the two year sentence handed down on February 20; the appeal has not yet been scheduled.

Naji is one of a number of Egyptian writers and journalists who have been targeted by the Sisi regime. Creatives have also been targeted, with the satiric “Street Children” troupe seeing their detention extended on July 13. But Naji’s case, the only one specifically targeting a novel, has garnered widespread support from authors as prominent as Donna Tartt and JK Rowling and activists like Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha (left, below).

jkr

Wafaa Heikal (@WafHeikal) said she hopes to be able to tweet from outside the proceedings.



Related Articles

Pobricidio en el Mediterráneo

Loading

Otro crimen del capitalismo El 3 de octubre naufragó cerca de Lampedusa (Italia) una frágil embarcación en la que se

More babies for a strong Turkey

Loading

NURAY MERT Until recently, it used to be considered almost blasphemous to talk about “the rise of authoritarian politics in

Egypt: Arrests of Syrians Raise Deportation Fears

Loading

Asylum Seekers, Legal Residents Taken from Checkpoints New York) – Egyptian authorities should stop arbitrarily detaining Syrians and threatening to

No comments

Write a comment
No Comments Yet! You can be first to comment this post!

Write a Comment