CAIRO - A prosecutor has summoned the editors of an Egyptian newspaper after it defied a gag order on the trial of a tycoon for the murder of a Lebanese singer, official MENA news agency said on Thursday.

The independent daily Al-Masri al-Yom published extracts of witness testimony given in court during the trial of Hisham Talaat Mustafa, accused of ordering the murder of pop singer Suzanne Tamim. The court had imposed the media blackout last week. Mustafa, a stalwart of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party, allegedly paid retired policeman Mohsen al-Sukkari, who is also on trial, two million dollars to kill Tamim, 30.
The singer was found dead in a luxury Dubai apartment on July 28 with her throat slit and several stab wounds in her body. Mustafa denies conspiracy to murder and the former policemen has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge.

The case, with its mix of wealth, show business, sex and politics and in which the two men could face the death penalty, has gripped Egypt where powerful businessmen are rarely seen to face justice.
Egyptian media said Tamim had a relationship with Mustafa over a three-year period that ended several months before her death.