§ Mr. DILLONasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to the trial of Fanit Bey, leader of the Nationalist Party in Egypt, for writing a preface to a volume of poetry, and to his sentence to one year's imprisonment; whether there was a jury in this case, and, if not, what was the nature of the tribunal; under what law 1422W was Fanit Bey tried; and whether he will lay upon the Table an official Report of the proceedings at the trial?
§ Sir E. GREYMohamed Fanit Bey, to whom the hon. Member is probably referring, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for writing a laudatory introduction to a volume of highly seditious poems. I understand that the case was tried before the Assize Court in accordance with the requirements of the ordinary law. It is not proposed to lay any papers on this subject.