Egypt’s Supreme Council for Media Regulation (SCMR) decided Dec. 5 to prevent media presenter Osama Kamal from appearing on his own TV program “90 Minutes,” on Al-Mehwar satellite channel for two weeks. The TV channel was also fined 100,000 Egyptian pounds (roughly $6,400). The decision comes following the program’s episode during which Kamal accused Egyptian officials of corruption and held them responsible for making Egypt lose its position as a strategic central transit point for international submarine communications cables, to the benefit of Saudi Arabia and Israel.
The "90 Minutes" program continued without Kamal.