DARI MESIR: TERKINI!!
The media needs to understand reality, not a general's dreams Middle East Monitor Friday, 14 February 2014 14:33 Something remarkable happened in Egypt this week. The military junta that deposed the country's first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, and is now putting him on trial for a plethora of politicised charges, not only filmed the president meeting with his attorney to discuss legal strategy but also released the tape to the public. Why didn't this send shockwaves through the Western media and human rights circles? The president has not been allowed to have the normal level of access to counsel. One would have expected news stories to focus on this vulgar breach of confidentiality when he was finally allowed a few minutes with his attorneys to prepare for court. Some journalists chalked this up to the "normal" excesses of military juntas that cannot reasonably be expected to adhere to international stan