Four Egyptian female journalists are represented before the Public Prosecution for investigation in several communications submitted by the Future Homeland Party, which has a parliamentary majority, accusing the independent news website of publishing false news about the party, in addition to other charges.
Mada Masr reported that the website’s editor-in-chief Lina Atallah, and journalists Rana Mamdouh, Bissan Kassab, and Sarah Seif are the ones who appear today for interrogation at the Public Prosecution office in the Al-Rehab area, east of Cairo.
Mada Masr’s defense team had submitted a request to the Public Prosecution to include the investigations into dozens of communications submitted by members of the Future Watan Party against the women journalists of Mada Masr in one investigation before the competent prosecution, and that the female journalists will be represented for investigation, while adhering to all the guarantees guaranteed by law to protect their journalistic work.
On the first of September, a number of MPs and members of the Future Watan Party submitted dozens of complaints against female journalists of the news site who participated in writing one of Mada’s news bulletins, which contained news about the monitoring by state control bodies that implicated prominent members of the party’s supreme body, what they described as: Serious financial irregularities that may cause them to be removed from their positions.
In a statement, the Future of the Watan Party denied this news, adding that the aim of the news published on the party was “to shake the confidence of citizens in the party as it is the majority party that has long stood as a barrier to the terrorist organization of the Brotherhood and its efforts to destroy the nation’s capabilities.”
The party announced its adherence to moral, moral and material compensation for the damages inflicted on the party and its leaders as a result of the abuse, which it described as the published lie, and demanded that the Mada Masr administration apologize for these allegations, according to the statement.