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Journalists face possible blasphemy charges
Duo to be summoned for questioning following controversial article in Egyptian daily
- By Duraid Al Baik, Associate Editor, Gulf News
- Published: 00:00 December 29, 2009
- Image Credit: Supplied
- Nadine Al Bdair has been heavily criticised for her recent article in the Egyptian daily Al Masry Al Youm calling for a new edict to allow a woman to marry four men.
Dubai: Saudi journalist, Nadine Al Bdair, and Editor-in-Chief, Magdy Al Galad, will be summoned for questioning in Egypt on Tuesday, Gulf News has learned, after General Public Prosecutor, Abdul Majeed Mahmoud, ordered the prosecutor of south Cairo to investigate blasphemy charges against the two.
Nadine has been heavily criticised for her recent article in the Egyptian daily Al Masry Al Youm calling for a new edict to allow a woman to marry four men.
In her view, if men and women are equals, they should be given the same privileges.
Many Muslims expressed outrage over the article.
Prosecution lawyer Khalid Fouad Hafez told Gulf News that he had been waiting for two weeks for the Public Prosecutor to hear the case. Since the case was filed, Nadine has been out of the public eye, but a source from Al Hurra TV, her former employer, says she might be in Beirut.
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