Giza prosecutors referred on Monday the editor-in-chief of an alleged pro-Muslim Brotherhood website to criminal trial for charges of “disseminating false news” and “instigating against the government”.
The referral of Mohamed Hassan, chief editor of Misr Alaan, the website of a Turkey-based satellite channel with the sam, came after five months of investigation. He is now facing charges of reporting false news designed to disrupt public security, insulting the president and broadcasting fabricated records of phone call allegedly made by army officials.
Investigators are saying that Hassan, now in police custody, has received finances from Gulf-based Muslim Brotherhood figures in return for his activity. They added that while he denied instigating violence, Hassan did not deny affiliation with the Brotherhood, now an outlawed group branded a terrorist entity by the Egyptian government.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
