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Egypt's Journalists Syndicate head detained for ‘sheltering criminals, spreading false news' A bail was set, but Syndicate head Yehia Qalash, along with board members Gamal Abdel-Reheem and Khaled El-Balshy, refused to pay
Egypt's prosecution ordered the detention of the Journalists Syndicate Head Yehia Qalash in the early hours of Monday after being called in for questioning on an incident that started this month when police stormed the syndicate and arrested two journalists. The prosecution is charging Qalash with sheltering two wanted individuals, journalists Mahmoud El-Sakka and Amr Badr, who the police arrested on 1 May in the unprecedented move of storming the syndicate, board member of the syndicate Karem Mahmoud told Ahram Online. The syndicate's General Secretary Gamal Abdel-Reheem and the Undersecretary Khaled El-Balshy were also detained and are facing the same charges. The trio are also being charged with spreading false news by publishing that over 40 policemen stormed the journalists syndicate on 1 May to arrest Sakka and Badr. The prosecution, according to Mahmoud, said only a handful of policemen entered the syndicate's headquarters in downtown Cairo. Both El-Sakka and Badr were wanted for "spreading false news." The prosecution previously imposed a media gag order on the storming of the syndicate. A bail was set at LE10,000 each, but the trio refused to pay. They refused to pay bail as one of charges, spreading false news, doesn't mandate a bail and also because Qalash requested a judge to look into the case, which was denied, a statement by the Journalists Syndicate read. The prosecution is scheduled to review the trio's case in a matter of hours, and either release them without bail or order a detention pending investigation, Mahmoud added. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/217896.aspx
