Tawfiq Okasha ( ar, توفيق عكاشة), is an Egyptian television presenter as owner and principal anchor of the satellite political-commentary channel Faraeen (also Al Fara'een). He has been called an opponent of Egyptian liberals and

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youth activists, and until late June 2012 was considered "a staunch supporter" of Egypt's ruling military council (SCAF).Tawfiq Okasha sentenced to six months imprisonment for insulting Khaled Saeed's family
/ref> Following Egypt's 2012 presidential election Okasha claimed that the United States government and Egypt's ruling military council had rigged the election in favor of the

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candidate

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, a former general who was

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's last prime minister.Military Rulers Fixed Presidential Vote to Install Islamist, 'Egypt's Glenn Beck' Says
By ROBERT MACKEY, 28 June 2012 The claim was called "wildly counterintuitive"
by DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and MAYY EL SHEIKH, nytimes.com, 13 July 2012 as both the United States and ruling military are enemies of the Brotherhood, and members of the council appeared on television to deny the report. The claim was seen as fueling a 15 July 2012 attack of tomatoes and shoes by Egyptian Copt protestors on the motorcade of the visiting US Secretary of State A former member of parliament for the former ruling National Democratic Party, Okasha has also been called "Egypt's

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" (after the right-wing American television host) for his "embrace of conspiratorial thinking and hatred of

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". In March 2012, he was found guilty of defamation and libel in lawsuit filed against him for insulting the mother of Egyptian torture victim

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and sentenced ''in absentia''. On his channel, Okasha co-hosts a popular TV show called "Egypt Today". According to ''

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'', "Okasha claims that "Egypt Today" was watched by more than 300 million viewers throughout the Arab world, a figure impossible to verify". Okasha's political opponents accused him of using the show to "spread lies and fantasy" about them. In July 2012, a court ordered Al-Faraeen to be shut down for 45 days. On 22 October 2012, Okasha was convicted of insulting President

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protested the conviction, calling it "a further blow to freedom of expression" and noting that the organization would consider Okasha a prisoner of conscience were he imprisoned on this basis.

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