Masrawy Sunday, October 30, 2016, 05:32 PM

I wrote - Hajar Hosni:

Yesterday, Saturday, the journalist Moataz Al-Demerdash was absent from appearing in his first episode of the "90 minutes" program on the "axis" screen, which included in its paragraphs a dialogue with Hisham Geneina, the former head of the Central Auditing Organization, while this comes two days after the conclusion of the conference The First National Youth Center, which came up with a set of recommendations on media legislation.

Abdel Ghaffar Shukr, Vice President of the National Council for Human Rights, said that the media should have more courage to enable it to confront any decisions issued by certain parties to stop episodes due to the selection of the guests if that is the reason behind stopping the episode, and even more courage to announce the name This party that prevented him from practicing his role in discussing issues transparently, saying, “The bodies that issue orders to the media to prevent any content from being published or displayed, deal with their viewpoint of protecting the country, which requires that media institutions not follow these decisions. Totally rejected ”.

The head of the Partners for Transparency Foundation, Walaa Jad Al-Karim, described the ban decision as a practice that undermines the advantages of the first youth conference, and contradicts all the positive messages that came out of the conference, saying, “The state must know that we have gone beyond the era of directed media, and that it is now difficult to believe that This act came voluntarily from the owner of the channel, and not from a security authority.

Regarding the legislation organizing the media, which was one of the recommendations of the First National Youth Conference, Mina Thabet, a researcher at the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, expressed his fear that these legislations would be issued in light of the prevailing philosophy of the legislator, which tends to further restrict freedoms and control the media, pointing out that until now It is not possible to judge the legislation that will be drawn up, but the fear of manipulating the wording to allow the censorship of media content is the problem.