In one incident, for example, when the protracted siege of Acre caused disquiet in Cairo and rumors started spreading among the civilian population, Mehmed Ali ordered three people to be beheaded and their bodies to be hanged on one of the old gates of Cairo with labels on their breasts reading “This is the fate which awaits those who cannot govern their tongues.” During the Syrian uprising against Mehmed Ali's rule in 1834 a man was hanged and left hanging for a long time for spreading rumors.

XREF: Connects with earlier claims about brutal corporal punishment (loc 671) and coercive state control techniques over populations (loc 490, 669). Builds on: "Brutal corporal punishment typified early modern European military law."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 672