CAIRO (Reuters) - The head of Egypt's journalists' union and two of its board members were in police detention on Monday on charges of harbouring colleagues wanted by the law and spreading lies, their lawyer and a fellow union official said.
Amnesty International condemned the detentions as the most brazen attack on the media in the country for decades and urged that the charges against the journalists be dropped.
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