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He referred to quotes from the website, such as “Mourtada Mansour is the key promoter of the slogan that Life is nothing but a huge Bathroom” and “the common thing between Mourtada and the Islamists is that they both imagine that life is nothing but a huge bathroom as all their stories focus on sex and masturbation”.

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Mansour argued that the website had turned into a platform that publishes defamatory, insulting, obscene, and slanderous political satire articles against him, and so had repeatedly breached the terms of the license it had been granted – which, Mansour submitted, did not extend to publishing political articles. On September 11, 2013, Mortada Mansour, a controversial Egyptian politician and public figure, brought an application before the Chamber of the Economical and Investment Disputes (7 th Chamber) within the Court of Administrative Judiciary, seeking the suspension of Al-Youm Al-Sabea website’s media license. The decision noted that although what had been published on the website against the plaintiff constitutes a crime of insult and defamation, withdrawing the license of the website or shutting it down would clearly contradict article 71 of the Constitution which prohibits any censorship or suspension of Egyptian media, and that censorship is not an appropriate measure to address defamation in the media. The plaintiff had sought the cancellation of the website’s license and the cutting off of its connection after the website published defamatory statements about him.

The Court of Administrative Judiciary in Egypt’s Chamber of Economical and Investment Disputes (7 th Chamber) issued a ruling rejecting the plaintiff’s demand to overturn the decision to not withdraw the license granted to Al-Youm Al-Sabea Website (موقع اليوم السابع).

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