CAIRO — Egypt has banned news coverage of the brutal slaying of a Lebanese pop star following media reports in other regional papers that say a wealthy Egyptian businessman ordered three men to carry out the killing.
The singer, 31-year-old Suzanne Tamim, was found stabbed and decapitated last month in the Gulf emirate of Dubai. On Friday, Egypt’s chief prosecutor, Abdel- Meguid Mahmoud, imposed a ban on coverage without explanation.
But a front-page Al-Dustour article on Sunday quoted unidentified sources as saying a former Egyptian police officer and two hotel security men from Cairo had confessed to killing Tamim in Dubai on behalf of a wealthy Egyptian businessman. The businessman was not identified. No motive for the killing was given.
Authorities barred distribution of the edition but the article remained on the paper’s website.
