Cairo — Public prosecution referred the former editor-in-chief of the local al-Watan newspaper, along with two more journalists, on Tuesday to criminal court on charges of spreading "false information."
A legal representative of Cairo University filed a complaint to the public prosecution, in which he accused the privately-owned al-Watan of spreading false information for publishing a report claiming that the university and the teaching hospital affiliated with it, Qasr al-Aini hospital, wasting public money by supplying the hospital with "unsuitable" equipment.
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