A Cairo court held a hearing session on Tuesday in a lawsuit that seeks the revoking of the BBC’s office in Egypt, local media reported. Lawyer Mohamed Hamed Salem filed the initial lawsuit, coming after a BBC report entitled ‘The shadow over Egypt’, which addresses the country’s human rights conditions and alleged torture. The BBC report focused on a woman which it claimed was subjected to forced disappearance by security forces. However, the SIS report noted that the BBC reporter failed to provide thorough information about the woman or to prove police involvement in the case. The report included the case of a young Egyptian woman alleged to have been forcibly disappeared in Egypt.

Source: Egypt Independent April 10, 2018 13:45 UTC