Human rights watchdog the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has widely denounced the case against Saber, and has helped with his legal defence.
Source/Credit: Daily News - Egypt
By Aaron T. Rose | October 22, 2013
Writer and activist Karam Saber’s trial date has been moved from Tuesday to 12 November, according to his lawyer Mohammed Mahmoud.
Saber is challenging a May 2013 court decision sentencing him in absentia to five years in prison for contempt of religion and defamation handed down by the Beni Suef misdemeanour court. He initially appealed the ruling on 10 September, but the court was adjourned until 22 October.
The case against Saber goes back to April 2011, when Islamists in Beni Suef filed a lawsuit over Saber’s short story collection “Where Is God?”, the author told state-run Ahram Online. The book was deemed to be offensive to religion by both the Ben Suef Coptic diocese and by Al-Azhar.
According to Mahmoud, Saber is currently in Egypt, and out of prison on bail.
Human rights watchdog the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has widely denounced the case against Saber, and has helped with his legal defence.
“The procedures that are being taken during the trial of Karam Saber and the ongoing threat of imprisonment because of the [contempt of religion] case clearly emphasise the necessity of drafting a constitutional provision to prevent the misuse of litigation to censor works of art and creativity…” said ANHRI in a Monday statement.
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