{"id":29560,"date":"2016-10-02T13:48:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T11:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/29560-three-journalists-detained-in-egypt-after-vox-pop.html"},"modified":"2016-10-02T13:48:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T11:48:50","slug":"three-journalists-detained-in-egypt-after-vox-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/29560-three-journalists-detained-in-egypt-after-vox-pop.html","title":{"rendered":"Three journalists detained in Egypt after vox pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"textscroller\" class=\"textContent tinyscrollbar-y jq_resizeScroll jq_columns fontsize_0\">\n<p>Three photojournalists have been detained on charges of spreading false information after conducting interviews on the streets with members of the public in central Cairo, officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The trio were arrested on September 26 and remanded in custody for 15 days, according to a security official and a member of the Egyptian journalists' union.<\/p>\n<p>Their lawyer, Fatma Serag, told AFP the three had been \"beaten and electrocuted\" while in detention and accused of \"belonging to an illegal organisation\" and \"spreading false news\".<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups say President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's government has tried to repress all opposition since the former army chief overthrew his Islamist predecessor Mohamed Morsi in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists Ossama al-Bishbishi, Mohamed Hassan and Hamdy Mokhtar -- all Egyptian -- \"were conducting interviews with passers-by near the journalists' syndicate\", union official Khaled Elbalshy told AFP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Serag said they were accused of \"using recording devices to spread false information through television channels in Turkey giving a bad impression of Egypt\".<\/p>\n<p>A number of members of Morsi's blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood have sought refuge in Turkey as relations between Cairo and Ankara deteriorated since the Islamist's ouster.<\/p>\n<p>Serag said the journalists were filming a segment on Islamic clothing when a passer-by informed the police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The security official said the three men had been filming without the necessary permit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police in May raided the journalists' syndicate and arrested two reporters accused of \"inciting protests\" against the authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elbalshy himself currently faces charges of harbouring wanted men in the union headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>And photographer Mahmoud Abdel Shakour has been detained for three years since he was arrested while covering the police dispersal of an Islamist protest camp in Cairo in August 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three photojournalists have been detained on charges of spreading false information after conducting interviews on the streets with members of the public in central Cairo, officials said Sunday. 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