Decision on Khaled Ali’s appeal delayed until March

A Cairo court yesterday postponed issuing a decision on presidential hopeful Khaled Ali’s appeal until 7 March. The postponement creates “uncertainty over whether [Ali] will be allowed to run in the forthcoming election,” Reuters reports. Ali was convicted of public indecency last fall for making obscene hand gestures outside a courtroom after a ruling overturning the decision to hand sovereignty of the Red Sea islands Tiran and Sanafir over to Saudi Arabia.