Members of Egypt’s Journalists Union Council have rejected amendments made by the country’s House of Representatives to the journalism law.
The alleged that the government is restricting freedom of journalism by developing mock amendments that restrict articles.
Mohamed Saad Abdel Hafiz, a member of Egypt journalist union council said that the journalism and information law is “an assassination of journalism”.
He added that “the articles of the law violate the independence of the profession, restrict freedom of opinion and expression, and make the executive authority a watchdog on press institutions”.
