The Misdemeanor Court accepted on Sunday an appeal filed by journalist and novelist Ahmed Nagy against his two-year prison verdict.

The court set January 1 as a date to consider Nagy's trial in the case of publishing and writing an article with “obscene sexual content”.

In February, Nagy was sentenced to two years in prison after an initial acquittal over charges of publishing and writing an article with “obscene sexual content”. 

The court also ordered the editor-in-chief of Akhbar Al Adab to pay a 10,000-pound fine for publishing Nagy’s article.