The trial of the novelist Ahmed Nagy was postponed to 2 January for verdict.
Nagy and editor-in-chief Tarek El-Taher of state-owned newspaper Akhbar Al-Youm news organisation were referred to criminal court for writing and publishing an article with “obscene sexual content”.
The novelist had written in Akhbar El-Adab, a literary journal affiliated with Akhbar Al-Youm, a chapter of his novel “Use of Life” after it has already been published by Dar El-Tanweer publishing house.