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The state security police have been harassing him and urging him to stop writing for our daily.
This ruling is the latest in a crackdown by the authorities on freedom of the press in Egypt
It totally contradicts the promise made by President Hosni Mubarak five years ago to cancel jail punishment in publishing cases
Even before Eisa expressed his view on the rumours about Mubarak's health, the rumours had already spread like wild fire in Egypt
This ruling opens the gates of hell to the Egyptian press as it heralds more such sentencing in the near future