The public prosecution for administrative affairs at the State Radio and Television Union issued a legal memo in which it cleared former Media Minister Usama Heikal and TV announcer Rasha Magdy of allegations of inciting against Copts
WATANI International
27 April 2012
Translator: Lydia / copy editor: Samia
Word count: 179
The public prosecution for administrative affairs at the State Radio and Television Union issued a legal memo in which it cleared former Media Minister Usama Heikal and TV announcer Rasha Magdy of allegations of inciting against Copts. At the same time, the investigation conducted by the prosecution found Ibrahim al-Sayyad, head of News Section of Egypt’s State TV and 18 of the crew working at News Section of guilty of incitement.
The Radio and TV prosecution had been assigned by Egypt’s public prosecution with investigating the case of incitement against Copts on State TV last October during the Maspero incident.
On 9 October 2011 a peaceful Coptic march to protest injustice against them was harshly attacked by military and security forces in Maspero, leading to the death of 27 Copts, crushed under military armoured trucks or shot to death. Some 300 others were injured. At the time, Rasha Magdy on State TV announced that Egypt’s military was under attack by the Copts, and urged Egyptians to “go down to protect the military, who were being attacked by the Copts”.