Author must continue a two-year sentence handed down for including a scene that ‘violated public modesty’ in his novel The Use of Life
Egyptian author Ahmed Naji, who was sentenced to two years in prison after a sexually explicit scene from his novel The Use of Life was ruled to have “violat[ed] public modesty”, has had his motion to suspend the prison sentence rejected by a Cairo court.
Naji was given his two-year sentence in February, after an Egyptian citizen claimed that the sexual content in an excerpt from The Use of Life had made his blood pressure drop and his heartbeat fluctuate. More than 500 Egyptian writers and artists, including Ahdaf Soueif, have signed a statement in solidarity with Naji, and in May, more than 120 international writers including Philip Roth, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Michael Chabon put their names to a letter calling for his release.
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