The first official decision against Reham Said after the recent crisis

The Egyptian Supreme Council of the Media (RMC) decided Wednesday to suspend TV presenter Reham Said for insulting obese women for a week on his weekly show "Sabaya" on the satellite channel Al-Hayat, Egyptian media reported. .

The council, which is in charge of organizing the media in Egypt, had investigated Reham Said after receiving a complaint from the Supreme Council of Women accusing the presenter of the program of "gravely insulting a large number of Egyptian women and men." to have used inappropriate words and descriptions that had aroused extreme dissatisfaction among Egyptian women ".

Reham Said said in an episode of his show devoted last week to the cause of obesity in Egypt that fat women are "dead" and "a burden to their parents, society and the state" .

In tackling this problem, Said referred to the statements made by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi late last year on the seriousness of obesity for public health, calling for the need to address the issue. encourage exercise.

The Supreme Council of Media announced that it had decided to prevent Said from appearing in all media for a year for "committing a crime in the media by insulting Egyptian women." According to the text of the decision published on the websites of Egyptian newspapers.