{"id":20461,"date":"2018-10-31T01:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20461"},"modified":"2018-10-31T01:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:22:35","slug":"egypt-releases-author-and-publisher-held-over-book-on-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20461","title":{"rendered":"Egypt releases author and publisher held over book on economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"72.748104465\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Authorities in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/egypt.html\">Egypt<\/a> have released the author of a book critical of President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/abdel-fattah-el-sisi.html\">Abdel Fattah el-Sisi<\/a>&#8216;s economic policies and his publisher after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/egypt-arrests-economist-abdel-khalik-farouk-critical-book-181022053722358.html\">detaining them<\/a>\u00a0more than a week ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>Abdel Khalik Farouk said on Tuesday a Cairo court ordered his release, alongside publisher Ibrahim el-Khateib, pending an investigation into accusations of publishing &#8220;fake news&#8221;.<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>The book argues that el-Sisi lacks a vision for remedying Egypt&#8217;s economic woes, which Farouq blames on the military&#8217;s monopoly of power since 1952.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Copies of the economist&#8217;s book &#8211; titled, Is Egypt really a Poor Country? &#8211; were seized just days before his arrest on October 21, according to local media.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Farouk&#8217;s wife told Reuters news agency three policemen who came to their home said the arrest was in connection with the book.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>She was later allowed to deliver food, medicine and clothes to him at a local police station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since el-Sisi\u00a0came to power in 2013,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/09\/rights-group-calls-egypt-open-air-prison-critics-180920083540412.html\">human rights\u00a0groups have accused Egyptian authorities<\/a> of muzzling all dissent.<\/p>\n<p><span>The authorities say they aim to fight against terrorism and the &#8220;spreading of false information&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in\u00a0Egypt have released the author of a book critical of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi&#8217;s economic policies and his publisher after\u00a0detaining them\u00a0more than a week ago. Abdel Khalik Farouk said on Tuesday a Cairo court ordered his release, alongside publisher Ibrahim el-Khateib, pending an investigation into accusations of publishing &#8220;fake news&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}