Mubarak pardons health-row editor

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has pardoned a newspaper editor sentenced to jail for publishing an article questioning his state of health. Ibrahim Issa was last month given a two-month jail sentence for printing pieces a court said were likely to disturb public security. Al-Dustour's editor-in-chief is one of the president's more outspoken critics.

Mr Mubarak issued the pardon on Armed Forces Day "to affirm his....
Tue Oct 2008 10:10 (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
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