CAIRO: A prosecutor has summoned the editors of Al-Masry Al-Youm after it defied a gag order on the trial of a tycoon for the murder of a Lebanese singer, official MENA news agency said on Thursday.
The independent daily published extracts of witness testimony given in court during the trial of Hisham Talaat Moustafa, accused of ordering the murder of pop singer Suzanne Tamim.
The court had imposed the media blackout last week.
Moustafa, a stalwart of Egypt s ruling National Democratic Party, allegedly paid retired policeman Mohsen El-Sokkary, who is also on trial, $2 million to kill Tamim, 30.
The singer was found dead in a luxury Dubai apartment on July 28 with her throat slit and several stab wounds in her body.
Moustafa denies conspiracy to murder and the former policemen has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge.
The case, with its mix of wealth, show business, sex and politics and in which the two men could face the death penalty, has gripped Egypt.
Egyptian media said Tamim reportedly had a relationship with Moustafa over a three-year period that ended several months before her death. -AFP
