The group also became a target of media criticism in the state-run press.
His letter initially prompted an outpouring of support and favorable articles in the state-run press.
The survivors were interviewed by the state-run press, however.
The letter was sent last week to foreign news organizations and the state-run press.
The most loyal readers of the state-run press come from older generations who have a nostalgic attachment.
There are no reliable circulation figures for the state-run press in Egypt.
With new, independent, credible and economically successful models of newspapers, the state-run press should be something of the past.
In Damascus, the state-run press put the election in the starkest terms.
The shrine was reopened on Sunday after widespread criticism in the state-run press about lax security.
The meeting was labeled "a cause for solidarity among Muslim nations" by the state-run Iranian press.