An Egyptian court will issue its verdict on Monday on the case of prominent blogger and activist Ahmed Douma, who has been accused of insulting the president and disrupting public order. A prosecutor has ordered that Douma be detained pending investigations over allegations of spreading false information likely to harm the public interest and slandering the Islamist president. The activist had called President Mohamed Mursi a “criminal, murderer, and a fugitive from justice” on satellite channels. In the last hearing session, Douma had said that it was not his intent to insult the president; rather, he was expressing his political opinion that “Mursi has lost his legitimacy and was directly responsible for the killing of protesters as the chief of the executive authority.”
