CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's highest court on Sunday ordered the freeing of an author who was jailed for public indecency when extracts from his sexually explicit novel were published in a literary newspaper, his lawyer said.
A chapter from Ahmed Naji's novel Istikhdam al-Hayat, or Using Life, was serialised in a state-owned literary publication and a case was brought against him last year by a private citizen who claimed it had caused him distress including heart palpitations.
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