Egypt bans newspapers

Wednesday 23 October 1996 23:02 BST

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Egypt has banned the distribution of two weekly newspapers because of material rejected by censors, their chief editors said.

Michael Howard, editor at the English-language The Middle East Times, said the censors blocked the paper because it failed to remove the front- page teaser to an article which it had already withdrawn analysing 15 years of rule by Hosni Mubarak.

The ban at the Arabic al-Dustour came after it ran a picture of Benjamin Netanyahu with a Nazi swastika on his forehead". Reuter - Cairo

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