70 journalists held in Egypt prisons
20 April 2022; MEMO: The arrest and imprisonment of journalist Ahmed Al-Bahey has raised the number of reporters in Egypt's jails to 70, according to the Arab Observatory for Media Freedom.
Al-Bahey, a correspondent for the independent news website Masrawy, was arrested from his home at 6am on 16 April and accused of "inciting violence".
The prosecutor ordered that Al-Bahey be held on remand for four days.
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