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Al-Araby
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CAIRO – Egypt’s prosecution charged veteran Egyptian journalist Khaled El-Balshy earlier this week with spreading fake news and misusing social media. El-Balshy told The New Arab he was interrogated for four hours before being released without bail, though further investigations are pending. “Nine people I know nothing about, including six lawyers, filed complaints against me in a single day, accusing me of those charges using my full name mentioned only in my ID card,” Balshy told The New Arab. The complaints involved photocopies of news stories published in Darb, of which Balshy is the edito…