"If I have to choose between being imprisoned and preserving the syndicate's entity, my colleagues and I would choose being detained," said the Journalists Syndicate chief Yehia Qallash on Wednesday, during the journalists' general assembly meeting. Dozens of journalists who attended the meeting expressed their support to Qallash and their colleagues, chanting: "Long live freedom of journalism, long live the unity of journalists!" "If I have to sacrifice my freedom for the syndicate's entity, I welcome this because it would be a cheap sacrifice. "As if the syndicate has no right to defend journalists and their rights; and as if the Journalists Syndicate chief has to hand over a journalist who comes to his own syndicate [for protection, ed. Sisi said Tuesday that the chief of the Journalists Syndicate Yehya Qallash is being tried for criminal charges, not for freedom of speech.

Source: Egypt Independent November 24, 2016 10:47 UTC