Brotherhood youth arrested, mediation to end al-sharq crisis

Cairo- April 6, 2018, group of staff member of the pro-Muslim Brotherhood TV channel “al-sharq” –broadcasted from Turkey- expenses the group leaders after they hold a sit-in in the channel’s headquarter.

The Turkish police interacted with this sit-in, Mohamed Tolba a fired anchor said that “Ayman Nour, the head of board of the channel exploits youth need for job and prevent them from their salaries and their financial dues.

Those groups of staff faired from their positions after they demanded their rights, and organized a sit-in, leading the police to arrest them. Mohamed Tolba posted in his facebook page “Nour bring thugs to prevent the youth from entering the channel”.

The brotherhood leader Hitham Abo Khalal declared in a statement “this crisis must be ended with negotiation not with police officers and preventing stuff from entering the channel”.

Hitham Abo Khalal said that Nour threatened workers that he was going to shut the channel down in an attempt to force them into accepting the decisions he had recently announced. Around 60 workers refused the decisions.

He added that Nour convinced the Brotherhood to support him in the Sharq crisis just to preserve his image before Qatari sponsors.