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No trial date had been set as of late in 2015. Khallaf is being held in pre-trial detention in CairoвЂ™s Tora prison. She got trained at Akhbar Al Youm Newspaper for two years after graduation in the Foreign. The Electronic Media Syndicate issued a statement in September denying the accusations made against it by the prosecution and government-aligned media. B.A., Mass Communication (Journalism), Akhbar ElYoum Academy. According to AFTE, the accusation is in connection with KhallafвЂ™s photographing the funeral of Hisham Barakat, EgyptвЂ™s prosecutor general, who was assassinated in late June 2015.

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A 1998 executive order states that individuals conducting audio and audiovisual work must have a license from the Ministry of Culture. Till now, InfoTimes has produced more than 300 data-driven story and served several local and international clients like Yahoo Maktoob, Akhbar Elyoum. The local press freedom group Journalists Against Torture and the local Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) said Khallaf was charged with вЂњtaking pictures and displaying artistic works without a license,вЂќ among other allegations.

When he arrived at the federationвЂ™s headquarters, police officers arrested him.ДЄfter his arrest, prosecutors charged Khallaf with belonging to the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, according to the news website Dot Msr. He had been summoned for questioning by the federation about the accusations published in Akhbar Elyoum, his lawyer told reporters. Khallaf was arrested at the Federation of Egyptian Syndicates in Cairo, to which the Electronic Media Syndicate belongs. The day he was arrested, Masr Al-Arabiya wrote an open letter to the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate, saying the outlet was a victim of a smear campaign and that the staff demanded a right of reply. Khallaf denied the accusations on his personal Facebook page. Khallaf was arrested after a news article was published by the government-owned daily Akhbar Elyoum that accused Khallaf and his syndicate, along with other media outlets including the news website Masr Al-Arabiya, of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood and receiving money from the group.

It is independent from the state-recognized Egyptian JournalistsвЂ™ Syndicate, which admits only print journalists and not those working online, or in radio or television. Khallaf is the founder and head of the Electronic Media Syndicate, which trains and supports journalists who work online in Egypt.

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