Cairo Court for Urgent Matters is considering Sunday a lawsuit calling for a circulation ban on two French satirical magazines, Charlie Hebdo and Liberation, over publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed, according to judicial sources. The plaintiff and head of the Nidal Center for Freedoms and Rights, Ahmed Ibrahim Soliman told Al Bawaba News that "freedom of expression does not mean to display contempt for other people's sacred figures". "Your freedom stops where mine starts," Soliman added. From 2006 on, Charlie Hebdo's front page repeatedly carried controversial headlines triggering seething hostile feelings among Muslims. The Paris-based magazine was firebombed in November 2011 after publishing a cartoon of Prophet Mohamed saying "100 whips if you don't die laughing". In February 2015, the magazine was subjected to an even fiercer attack during which 12 journalists were killed, a raid which the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for. Islamic religious leaders, including Egypt's Al Azhar Grand Imam strongly decried the deadly attacks. In the same context, the State Council Administrative Court is considering a lawsuit calling for the closure of the Open Door show broadcast on the Egyptian Dream satellite channel. Mohamed Ibrahim, who filed the suit, called on the minister of Information to terminate the Dream TV service to allegedly 'maintain the Egyptian national unity'. The show presented by anchor Eman Abou Taleb usually tackles sensitive issues within the Egyptian society including the almost taboo subject of Atheism.
