In this Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 photo, Newspaper editor Islam Afifi, right, walks out of a Cairo police station hours after a court had ordered Afifi to remain in prison pending trial in September over accusations of slandering the president and harming public interest for inflammatory articles published in el-Dustour newspaper in Cairo, Egypt. Hours after the court decision was announced, President Mohammed Morsi passed his first law since assuming lawmaking powers banning the imprisonment of journalists who face trial on media-related charges. (AP Photo/Ahmed Abd el Fatah
In this Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 photo, Newspaper editor Islam Afifi, right, walks out of a Cairo police station hours after a court had ordered Afifi to remain in prison pending trial in September over accusations of slandering the president and harming public interest for inflammatory articles published in el-Dustour newspaper in Cairo, Egypt. Hours after the court decision was announced, President Mohammed Morsi passed his first law since assuming lawmaking powers banning the imprisonment of journalists who face trial on media-related charges. (AP Photo/Ahmed Abd el Fatah
Islam Afifi, the chief editor of el-Dustour newspaper, center, attends a court hearing in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. A Cairo court on Thursday ordered the chief editor of an Egyptian newspaper detained pending trial on charges of insulting the country?s president and ?spreading lies.? The case against Afifi of the privately-owned el-Dustour daily is one of several lawsuits brought mainly by Egypt?s Islamists against journalists, accusing them of inflammatory coverage and inciting the public against the Muslim Brotherhood, the country?s largest political group. (AP Photo/Mohammed Asad)
CAIRO (AP) ? The editor of an independent Egyptian daily has been released from jail just hours after the country's Islamist president issued a new law that bans imprisoning journalists on charges related to their articles.
It was the first time President Mohammed Morsi had issued a law since he assumed legislative powers earlier this month.
Islam Afifi was photographed smiling and being greeted by staff from the privately-owned el-Dustour newspaper after his release late on Thursday. He was detained just hours earlier following a court decision that he be held in custody pending his trial in September.
Afifi has been charged with slandering the president and harming public interest with inflammatory articles published in his newspaper. The articles criticized Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest political group group.
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