Ahram Gate reporter arrested
A journalist reporting for the state-owned news portal Ahram Gate was reportedly arrested in Beni Suef on Thursday. Emad Sayed Abu Zeid is facing charges disturbing the public opinion and publishing information from a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated website, reported the privately owned Al-Masry Al-Youm (AMAY).
One of AMAY’s own journalists, Ahmed Abu Deraa, was arrested yesterday on similar charges of deliberately spreading abroad false news, reports and rumors about the domestic situation in the country, and spreading false news on an Arabic satellite channel about the Armed Forces and the results of its operations in North Sinai during the army’s raid on the village of Sheikh Zayed.
Negad al-Boraei, AMAY’s legal consultant, stated later on Thursday that despite obtaining a visiting permit, visits to Abu Deraa were refused.
There has been an unprecedented crackdown on members of the media working in Egypt since former President Mohamed Morsi was ousted by military order on July 3. Dozens have been killed, injured, detained and deported while reporting on ongoing events.
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