Sherif Ismail’s cabinet also approved the long-awaited media and press at yesterday’s cabinet meeting, which was held in place of their standard Wednesday gathering. The legislation, which would establish a state-controlled regulatory body for media and journalism in Egypt, was sent to the State Council and will then move to the House of Representative, Planning Minister Ashraf El Arabi told reporters, according to Ahram Online. While we still don’t understand how journalists could welcome more regulation, the Press Syndicate praised the move and said cabinet had met one of its demands, said Gamal Abdel Rahim, a syndicate official. (Passing the act had been one of the 16 demands issued by the syndicate during the first week of its standoff with the Interior Ministry earlier this month.) Abdel Rahim announced that the cabinet had instructed the Justice Ministry to draft a law that would forbid the arrest of journalist for publishing content, Al Masry Al Youm reports. The cabinet responded through its spokesperson, saying that the Press Syndicate’s-MOI beef had nothing to do with the passing of the act, adding that the cabinet had been working on the legislation for some time, AMAY reports.