Cairo — The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, ANHRI, expresses its annoyance over the press statements released by Gen. Adel Labib, Local Development Minister, concerning a new bill criminalizing graffiti, which will be presented to the cabinet to be approved.
Local Development Ministry secretly drafted this law and it hasn't viewed its articles on the public opinion so far. The law stipulates that whoever writes abusive graffiti on walls of governmental as well as private buildings would be carried a four-year sentence and fined EGP 100,000, besides confiscating the used tools in paintings or writing. The minister had announced about forming committees in neighborhoods to monitor those who write such abusive phrases on walls.
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