Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on Saturday the unconstitutionality of article 52 of recently issued press-regulation law number 96 of 1996, state media reported. The article included a requirement for newspapers to be licensed, which the court found unconstitutional. To receive a license to issue a newspaper, a partner company had to be established first, the article stated. The article further stipulated that the capital of a partner company for a daily newspaper had to be EGP 1 million. The parliament is currently preparing a second draft law to regulate press practices after President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi ratified the institutional regulating media law in December 2016.

Source: Daily News Egypt June 03, 2017 16:18 UTC