North Cairo Misdemeanour Court rejected on Saturday an appeal request against the two-year prison sentence of detained novelist Ahmed Nagy. In February Nagy was sentenced to two years in prison after an initial acquittal over charges of publishing and writing an article with "obscene sexual content". The court also ordered the editor of Akhbar Al-Adab to pay a EGP 10,000 fine for publishing Nagy's article. Defence lawyer Ahmed Osman told Daily News Egypt that the session was the first of its kind since Nagy's arrest, in a bid to stop the verdict. Despite the possibility of filing another request to stop the verdict, the defence team has not yet considered such an action, he added. However, he said that an appeal request was submitted and the court of appeals did not yet schedule a session for it.