Court Postpones Decision On Closure Of BBC’s Cairo Office

 

  

An Egyptian court on Tuesday (April 24th) postponed its decision on the closure of the BBC's Cairo office following a report on enforced disappearances in the country, the state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported. The lawsuit alleges that the BBC published a series of fake and fabricated news reports and that one of its reports included an interview with a woman, who claimed that her daughter had been secretly arrested and imprisoned by the Egyptian authorities in April 2017. A few days later, the girl, Zubeida, appeared in an Egyptian talk show, denying that she had been detained or mistreated in any way. The mother was arrested for spreading false information.

Egypt’s State Information Service, which runs the foreign correspondents’ press centre, issued a statement demanding that the BBC apologise for the report, which it described as “fabrication.’’

The BBC said that it “stands by the integrity of its reporting teams and that it will be discussing the complaint with Egyptian authorities in the coming days.’’


Rights groups say large-scale human rights abuses have taken place in Egypt since the army’s 2013 overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi following mass protests against his rule.
Authorities have repeatedly called the violations “isolated cases” and vowed to punish wrongdoers.
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