Egyptian Presidential Candidate Jailed for 5 Years

The Washington Post reports this morning that an Egyptian appellate court has upheld the fraud conviction of Ayman Nour, the candidate who challenged President Hosni Mubarak and his 25 years of one-man rule in elections last year, leaving his sentence of five years in prison intact.According to the Post:Nour was convicted in December of forging documents needed to legalize his Tomorrow Party,