Egyptian authorities charged journalist Mohamed Ashraf with joining a terrorist group on Sunday, days after security forces arrested all six staff members of Matsadaash, an independent fact-checking platform based in Cairo.
Ashraf was interrogated from 10pm to 8am before being charged with spreading false news and membership of a terrorist organisation. He will be held for 15 days pending investigation. The whereabouts of the remaining five journalists — Abdallah Qadri, Mohamed Adel, Islam Barakat, Mohamed Mahmoud and Omar Helal — are unknown.
Egyptian authorities arrested the six journalists over two days, accusing the outlet of operating without a licence and publishing false news on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood, designated a terrorist organisation by Egypt in 2013. Matsadaash co-founder Abdelrahman Mansour denied any Brotherhood association, calling the arrests "one of the gravest attacks on journalism in Egypt's modern history."
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