Bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building says case against him violates Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Alaa al-Aswany, the bestselling Egyptian author of The Yacoubian Building, has been sued by military prosecutors in Egypt for “insulting the president, the armed forces and judicial institutions”.
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