Adel Hammuda and Rasha Azab appeared before a military prosecutor

Adel Hammuda, the editor of the newspaper Al-Fajr, and Rasha Azab, one of his reporters, appeared before a military prosecutor in connection with an article that quoted a senior army officer. They were to be tried before a military court on a still undetermined date. Azab was facing a possible jail sentence on a charge of publishing “false information liable to disturb public security” in the article she wrote for Al-Fajr’s 12 June issue. Hammuda was facing a possible fine for alleged negligence in his role as editor. The article was about a meeting between Cairo military commander Gen. Hassan Al-Ruwaini, a member of the Armed Forces Supreme Council, and representatives of a group called “No military trials for civilians” about the torture of demonstrators by civilian police.