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Copies of Egypts most prominent newspapers running black background front pages with Arabic that reads, no to dictatorship, tomorrow free newspapers will obscure to protest the freedom's restrictions and a picture of a man wrapped in newspaper with his feet cuffed, at the editorial room of Al Masry Al Youm daily newspaper in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. Eleven Egyptian newspapers are planning to suspend publication on Tuesday to protest against President Mohammed Morsi's decision to call a constitution referendum on 15 December. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) (Credit: AP)
Egyptian papers suspend publication in protest
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Copies of Egypts most prominent newspapers running black background front pages with Arabic that reads, no to dictatorship, tomorrow free newspapers will obscure to protest the freedom's restrictions and a picture of a man wrapped in newspaper with his feet cuffed, at the editorial room of Al Masry Al Youm daily newspaper in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. Eleven Egyptian newspapers are planning to suspend publication on Tuesday to protest against President Mohammed Morsi's decision to call a constitution referendum on 15 December. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) (Credit: AP)CAIRO (AP) — Several influential Egyptian newspapers have suspended publication to protest what many journalists see as restrictions on the freedom of expression in a draft constitution adopted by an Islamist-led panel.
Tuesday’s protest involved at least eight independent newspapers. It comes as opponents of President Mohammed Morsi plan a massive rally outside his Cairo palace. The rally will be the latest against the draft constitution and decrees by the Islamist leader giving him nearly unrestricted powers.
The country’s privately owned TV networks plan their own protest Wednesday, when they will blacken their screens all day.
The protests are part of a widening political crisis that has deeply divided the Arab nation.
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