FRANCE PRESS

CAIRO: Asma Mahfuz, an activist and blogger involved in the uprising earlier this year that toppled president Hosni Mubarak, will be tried by a military court for defamation, a judicial source said Tuesday.
Mahfuz was questioned Sunday for “speaking inappropriately about the military council and for using defamatory and offensive insults against the council on Facebook and Twitter,” the official MENA news agency reported.
Mahfuz will be notified about the date of the trial, the source added.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has ruled Egypt since the fall of Mubarak on Feb. 11.
Mahfuz was released on bail of 20,000 pounds but the investigation against her continues.
The military council has come under much criticism from pro-democracy activists in Egypt, who suspect it will delay a transition to civilian government.
It has also been criticized for summoning journalists over their reporting and arresting them during protests.