Military court sentences poet to three years in prison for “insulting security forces”

Topping coverage of Egypt in the foreign press this morning are wire pickups of the a three-year military court sentence handed down to poet Galal El Beheiri over a collection of poems seen as insulting to security forces and for disseminating false news. He was arrested in March over “a collection of poems entitled ‘The Best Women on Earth,’ a play on a saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammad that Egypt was the birthplace of ‘the best soldiers on earth.’” The verdict can be appealed, the Associated Press reports. .