Trial over image of bearded Mickey Mouse postponed

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Ethan Minovitz

Photo: APF

Cairo ban­ner protests against Naguib Sawiris (Photo: APF)

The first hear­ing in the trial of an Egypt­ian telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions mag­nate who tweeted a car­toon of a bearded Mickey Mouse and a veiled Min­nie was post­poned Saturday.

Naguib Sawiris had been charged with insult­ing reli­gion, but the bil­lion­aire was a no-show, said a judi­cial source.

The new hear­ing will be held Feb­ru­ary 11, Sherif Kamel said.

Sawiris spurred crit­i­cism after jok­ing that Mickey and Min­nie would be forced into con­ser­v­a­tive garb if Islamists took power.

The Cop­tic Chris­t­ian busi­ness­man apol­o­gized for the car­i­ca­ture after Islamists urged a boy­cott of Mobinil, the cell phone ser­vice provider he owns. Even so, Islamist lawyer Mam­duh Ismail filed a case against Sawiris, who heads Oras­com Telecom.

Another lawyer, Ali Ahmad Borham, charged Sat­ur­day that the car­toon he tweeted was an “unprece­dented” attempt in Egypt at mak­ing fun of reli­gion, the source added.

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