Egyptians mock Mo'taz Matar as 'whistle' campaign fails

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Amr Mohamed Kandil

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Thu, 28 Feb 2019 - 02:23 GMT

BY

Amr Mohamed Kandil

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 - 02:23 GMT

FILE - Mo'taz Matar

FILE - Mo'taz Matar

CAIRO - 28 February 2019: Many Egyptian Twitter users have used the hashtag "be afraid, you are alone," to counter an opposition campaign launched by Mo'taz Matar, a pro-Muslim Brotherhood TV presenter in Turkey-based Al-Sharq TV channel.

"You are not alone ... We need to reassure ourselves ... [using] a peaceful and a not dangerous way," Matar said, before launching the campaign "you are not alone." The campaign serves as a communication method between pro-Muslim Brotherhood individuals, opposition figures, and MB elements.

The report published during the show urged opposition figures to use whistles or horns, etc, on Wednesday, Feb. 27, apparently, in efforts to gather the opposition in the streets and renew the anti-regime protests.


"Did anybody hear any sounds or whistles? I just [want] to tell Mo'tazMatar, be afraid, you are alone," Ahmed said in a tweet.


There is a big difference between those who build, fix and promote growth, and those who betrayed it (Egypt), betrayed its people, traded with their blood, and fled to [resorte] to Aghas in Turkey," Mo'taz Sonbol added.


The outlawed Muslim Brotherhood electronic militias reportedly circulated rumors on social media platforms that thousands of citizens are protesting at Tahrir Square. The organized electronic militias probably planned to take advantage of the wide frustration caused by the tragic Ramses station accident that left 20 people dead and more than 40 injured on Wednesday.

Egypt Today inspected the calm square and the smooth traffic where no signs of protest existed, denying all the rumors spread by the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.



In January, 2018, many media figures working at channels operating in Qatar and Turkey, including Mo’taz Matar, Mohamed Nasser, Haitham Abou Khalil and Nasser Abo Khalil, were designated as terrorists, banned from entering Egypt, and were charged with being mouthpieces of the terrorists.

In 2015, Mohamed Nasser was sentenced to 10 years in absentia for attempting to overthrow the regime and inciting against the state institutions, while Matar was handed in 2016 a two-year imprisonment sentence in absentia for spreading rumors to create unrest and incite violence against police and army officers.



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