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An appeals court declared that the work of Egyptian journalist Mona Iraqi, who had reported “a gay bathhouse orgy” to the police in late 2014, is "journalistic work that serves public interest." In the reasoning released by the Cairo misdemeanour appeals court on Wednesday, the reason behind Iraqi's acquittal of charges of defamation and “publishing false information” is that the intention to "defame" did not exist in her case. Instead, the court's reasoning went on, Iraqi intended to raise awareness…