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Egyptian Journalist Jailed on Charges of Fake News, Terrorism

VOA News

   Egyptian authorities arrested a prominent journalist Monday on charges
   of spreading fake news, his lawyers said. Mohamed Monir, 65, was taken
   by plainclothes security officers from his apartment in Giza, south of
   Cairo.

   Egypt's national security prosecutor additionally alleged that Monir
   joined a terrorist group and accused him of misusing social media, his
   lawyer, Nabeh el-Ganadi, said.
   Monir is editor-in-chief of the al-Diyar newspaper and a former deputy
   editor of the pro-government Al-Youm Al-Sabae, or Seventh Day
   newspaper, among other outlets, his lawyer said.

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