TV presenter Mona Iraqi was sentenced Thursday to six months in jail and a bail of LE1,000 over charges of broadcasting false reports about an alleged orgy and debauchery involving 26 men at a popular bathhouse in Cairo last year.
A Cairo court, which upheld an earlier verdict with the same sentence handed down against Iraqi, found the AlKahera Wal Nas satellite channel presenter guilty of libel and defamation.
Last December, the TV reporter brought a secret cameraman into a bathhouse near the Ramses train station to film inside and later colluded with police to raid the premises. As the police arrived, Iraqi filmed the half-naked men crouched and huddled as police attempted to escort them to jail.
The suspects from the bathhouse were later acquitted in January of charges of practicing homosexuality.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
