By Jeff Black in Cairo
A newspaper editor has been put on trial in Egypt for reporting that the president Hosni Mubarak was gravely ill.
Ibrahim Eissa, editor of the independent weekly al-Dustour and a well-known government critic, is accused of spreading "false information, damaging the public interest and national stability".
The charges relate to the publication of rumours, circulated widely during August, that Mr Mubarak, 79, was in poor health or had died. It is alleged that the publication of the rumours led to foreign investors pulling funds out of Egypt.
The case, which Mr Eissa did not attend, was heard in a packed and fractious courtroom cordoned off by a heavy security presence.
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