The charges against them related to a police raid last May on the Journalists` Syndicate to arrest two opposition journalists who had sought shelter there from arrest.
The appeals court on Saturday gave Qalash and the two board members, Khaled al-Balshy and Gamal Abdel Rahim, a one-year suspended jail sentence.
CAIRO An Egyptian appeals court suspended a jail sentence on Saturday against the former head of the journalists` union for harboring colleagues wanted by authorities and for spreading false news, judicial sources and a lawyer said.
In the journalists` syndicate election earlier this month, Qalash and Balshy both failed in their bids for re-election.
The deal has since been blocked by a court in Cairo which ruled the islands were sovereign Egyptian territory.
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