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Egyptian security authorities confiscate a book addresses the issue of corruption in Algeria
Cairo, May 14, 2009.
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said that the Egyptian security authorities confiscated a book entitled "A Flood Of Corruption And The Advance Of bin Laden In Algeria" by the Algerian writer, "Anwar Malek," the book deals with the involvement of some Algerian officials and their children in cases of corruption in Algeria, after having been published on 'Uktob' publishing house in Cairo with deposit number (26518/2009) in the General Egyptian Book Organization.
In his letter to the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Anwar Malek said: "The book is already printed, but the state security confiscated it from distribution stores and warned the publisher of reprinting it, and moreover, they threatened the publisher with closing the publishing house if he counteracted the prejudice against them by leaking information to media."
The confiscated book addresses the vision of the Algerian writer of crimes committed by al-Qaeda and other armed groups and their relationship with the Algerian security services, the book also contains a file on the Algerian prisons and the blatant human rights violations taking place inside prisons, such as torture, abduction and extrajudicial murder.
The Arabic Network said, "once again the police apparatus proves its hostility towards freedom of expression, limiting the state which it protects to the Egyptian government, and other governments,"
"we also feel sorry for the deteriorating role played by the publishing house to cover up the confiscation for fear of the state security, freedom of expression in Egypt shall not be grabbed by cowards, and this publishing house – 'Uktob'- has already withdrawn one of its books (British Gulf) from the market and announced that it would remove it totally from its shelves to compliment the Saudi government, as indicative of the increasing pressures experienced by writers and researchers from the security apparatus or some publishing houses," said the Arabic Network.
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