Egypt: Press Council Calls for Dissolving Shura's Editor-Selecting Committee

Members of the Supreme Council of the Press declared on Thursday they fully rejected forming a Shura Council committee to choose chairmen and editors of national press organisations based on criteria that were not met with approval from the majority of journalists.

Council members denounced in today's meeting the formation of this committee without consulting them first in spite of the risk this procedure poses and its consequences on the future of journalism and journalists.

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