Khaled Lotfy, whose firm Tanmia published a new edition of a book about Egyptian double agent Ashraf Marwan, has been sentenced to five yearsCairo international book fair has excluded imprisoned publisher Khaled Lotfy’s firm from the event citing “security reasons”, the International Publishers Association (IPA) has said. But his final appeal against a jail sentence was rejected by the Egyptian military court of cassation in December. A prize-winning publisher as well as a bookshop in Cairo, Tanmia has often attended the Cairo fair, a major event for the Egyptian publishing industry . But organisers told the publisher it should stay away this year’s event, which opened on Wednesday. The Angel had previously been available in Arabic in Egypt as a more expensive, imported edition from the Lebanon-based Arab Scientific Publishers.

Source: The Guardian January 22, 2020 13:52 UTC