Privately owned Mehwar TV channel on Wednesday said it has opened an investigation into controversial TV host Mona Iraqi for reportedly using “inappropriate” language during her coverage of a rape case on the show “Entebah” (attention). The channel’s management stressed that any announcer who does not abide by the professional and moral rules of the channel does not have a place on screen. Iraqi was in 2015 sentenced to six months in prison with a LE10,000 bail over charges of “defamation” and broadcasting false news for her controversial filming of a bathhouse raid in December 2014. Iraqi received wide-spread criticism in 2014 for cooperating with police to raid the bathhouse, located near the Ramses neighborhood in Cairo, accusing the 26 men inside of “debauchery”, a blanket legal term for homosexual activity. As the naked men were being escorted out of the bathhouse by the police, Iraqi filmed the incident for her then undercover TV program “Al-Mostakhbai” (the hidden) on the Al-Kahera wal Nas satellite channel.

Source: Egypt Independent February 14, 2018 10:29 UTC