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The author underlines journalists’ demands, which are focused on two main things, bread and freedom, as they are demanding a fair salary framework and the cancellation of the imprisonment punishment for publishing-related offenses.
Journalists call for President Husnī Mubārak to fulfill his promise to abolish imprisonment in publishing related cases, but they continue attacking each other in the newspapers.
Al-Fajr newspaper is tackling the issue of imprisonment law, asserting that the old law is better than the new one and any change the government makes will be for the worse.
The author blames the Syndicate of Journalists for failing to use its rights, granted by virtue of the law, to hold journalists who violate ethics to account. He argues that this has meant that poorly-paid journalists end up in the courts of law and face imprisonment over publishing-related...
Another celebrated Egyptian journalist is urging the drafting of a new journalistic code of ethics through a committee of the profession’s elders.
In an interview to Rose al-Yousuf magazine, veteran journalist Makram Muhammad Ahmad said that harshening punishments against journalists harms society and that activating the profession;s code of ethics would solve a lot of problems.
The author reviews the opinions of some veteran journalists about the law to cancel the imprisonment penalty in publishing-related cases.
The author focuses on some aspects of the draft law on the abolition of imprisonment of journalists, which will soon be referred to the People’s Assembly for a final debate.
The article examines some problems facing journalists, urging them to start a strong initiative to improve the condition of the press in Egypt.
While Kuwait, which is considered a small country compared to Egypt, has stopped using the law to imprison journalists, Egypt still imprisons journalists despite the president’s promises that imprisonment in publishing-related cases will be abolished.

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