{"id":199263,"date":"2025-06-01T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egyptian-journalist-rasha-qandeel-charged-with-spreading-false-news-after-political-reports\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T07:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:09:00","slug":"egyptian-journalist-rasha-qandeel-charged-with-spreading-false-news-after-political-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egyptian-journalist-rasha-qandeel-charged-with-spreading-false-news-after-political-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Journalist Rasha Qandeel Charged With Spreading &#8216;False News&#8217; After Political Reports."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Washington, D.C. \u2014 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Egyptian authorities to end the prosecution of journalist Rasha Qandeel, who was summoned May 25, interrogated, and charged with &#8220;spreading and broadcasting false news inside and outside the country&#8221; after her reports on Egypt&#8217;s social, political and economic developments for the independent media platform Sotour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The Supreme State Security Prosecution released Qandeel the same day on bail of 50,000 Egyptian pounds (about&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505300022.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Egyptian authorities to end the prosecution of journalist Rasha Qandeel, who was summoned May 25, interrogated, and charged with &#8220;spreading and broadcasting false news inside and outside the country&#8221; after her reports on Egypt&#8217;s social, political and economic developments for the independent media platform Sotour. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":199264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,7081,415,6639,7556,7277,257,6378,51494,32899,8327,254,9948],"class_list":["post-199263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charged","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptian","tag-false","tag-journalist","tag-news","tag-political","tag-qandeel","tag-rasha","tag-reports","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spreading"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}