Egypt has banned the sale of four international newspapers for printing blasphemous pictures, the official MENA news agency reported on Tuesday. Under a decree issued by Information Minister Anas al-Fiqi, Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Welt, Britain's Observer and the US Wall Street Journal will not be sold, MENA said.
"Any newspaper or magazine which publishes anything offensive to the Holy Prophet (PBUH)... and reprints the offensive caricatures of the Prophet (PBUH) or anything offensive to the three heavenly religions will be banned," Fiqi said. It was not immediately clear which day's editions were banned.