[Middle East Times] Joseph Mayton - An Egyptian court Sunday ordered the chairman of Cairo News Company (CNC), Nader Gowhar, to pay a fine of 150,000 Egyptian pounds ($27,000) for publishing footage of a protest earlier this year that was carried by the pan-Arabic news network Al-Jazeera. Cairo considered the footage broadcast to be disruptive to Egypt's national image. It showed demonstrators in Mahalla al-Kobra in April stomping on a large photograph of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak. Egypt has been leading the charge across the Middle East to increase government control over media outlets, especially those run and based in Egypt. This year, Egypt led a campaign in the Arab League to establish a charter that enabled Arab governments to crack down on satellite broadcasters.
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