Members of the Press Syndicate asserted on Saturday that they will appeal before the Cassation Court against the verdict issued by a Cairo misdemeanours court, sentencing syndicate leaders to a suspended one-year prison term. “We will appeal the verdict at the Cassation Court,” El-Balshy told reporters at the syndicate following the verdict on Saturday. “We were defending the cause of press freedom and this syndicate,” he added. We should be very aware of this campaign against press freedom, and reject it,” Badr told reporters Saturday. Commenting on the verdict, Abdel Hafiz said, “we used to think that freedoms hit rock bottom under the Mubarak regime, but apparently things got much worse.

Source: Daily News Egypt March 25, 2017 15:11 UTC