{"id":25609,"date":"2011-08-16T13:39:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T12:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25609"},"modified":"2011-08-16T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T12:39:08","slug":"egypt-judge-bans-cameras-for-remainder-of-mubaraks-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25609","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Judge bans cameras for remainder of Mubarak&#8217;s trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Egypt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/egypt\/\">Egyptian<\/a> judge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/aug\/15\/mubarak-trial-judge-bans-tv-cameras\">has banned<\/a> state-owned TV cameras from filming the rest of <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Hosni Mubarak\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/hosni-mubarak\/\">Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s<\/a> trial.\u00a0Even though\u00a0state TV cameras\u00a0were allowed in the courtroom for the first two hearings,\u00a0Judge Ahmed Rifaat\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.almasryalyoum.com\/en\/node\/486842\">made the decision<\/a> to ban live coverage before\u00a0witnesses testify in court &#8220;in protection of the general interest&#8221;. According to Al-Masry Al-Youm, the decision was met with outrage and suspicion\u00a0from many members of the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian judge has banned state-owned TV cameras from filming the rest of Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s trial.\u00a0Even though\u00a0state TV cameras\u00a0were allowed in the courtroom for the first two hearings,\u00a0Judge Ahmed Rifaat\u00a0made the decision to ban live coverage before\u00a0witnesses testify in court &#8220;in protection of the general interest&#8221;. According to Al-Masry Al-Youm, the decision was met with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585],"tags":[3657,7376,2841,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25633,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609\/revisions\/25633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}