Egyptian police said they arrested on Thursday the owner of a television station that broadcasts belly dancing, on suspicion of “facilitating prostitution.” Baleegh Hamdi, owner of the al-Tett channel, is also accused of “harming public decency,” police said, adding that he was arrested in his apartment. The prostitution charge appears to stem from messages broadcast on the channel, a police official said without elaborating. Egyptian law bans prostitution and vaguely defined offences against public decency.