CAIRO (Reuters) - Mostafa al-Asar's lawyer said he had barely started work on a documentary critical of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi when police arrested him and charged him with publishing "fake news".
The journalist was detained before he had even begun filming, his lawyer said. The government did not respond to requests for comment.
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