Tawfiq Okasha has been released from custody after being arrested on Sunday over five charges made against him, state news agency MENA reported Monday.
Okasha was released after his lawyer submitted appeals against convictions issued in absentia against the prominent, anti-Islamist TV host.
MENA had said Okasha was detained when he went to a police station in Nasr City to check whether any sentences had been issued against him. He was told that he had received convictions while he was not in court.
He had received two six-month convictions for issuing bad checks and two months for stealing electricity, according to MENA.
Okasha, owner of Al-Faraeen satellite channel, was referred to criminal trial in September on charges of inciting the assassination of the new president.
The next session of his trial has been set for 3 October.
He has denied the incitement charge, saying he only criticized Morsy, and denounced the trial as politically driven. He said he is being persecuted because he revealed the Muslim Brotherhood’s involvement in attacks on police stations, courts and prisons during the 25 January revolution.
After 16 Egyptian border guards were killed in a Sinai attack in early August, Okasha, a supporter of former President Hosni Mubarak and Egypt’s military leaders, warned Morsy on his TV program that his life would be at risk if he attended the guards’ funeral.
Al-Faraeen was suspended by authorities on 16 August.
