A prominent Egyptian journalist, Mohamed Monir, who had been jailed on charges of broadcasting false news died of COVID-19 on Monday, raising fears that the coronavirus may be spreading undetected in Egypt’s notoriously crowded prisons. [ More … ]
Egypt has maintained its policy of detaining journalists on charges of spreading ‘false news’. The country has already been named the third worst jailer of journalists by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Egyptian authorities detained [ More … ]
Against the backdrop of the death of a detainee in the Scorpion Prison, south of Cairo, families of the notorious prison detainees are calling for an urgent investigation into what they considered a “horrific murder”. [ More … ]
Dozens of Palestinian journalists rallied on Sunday – protesting with one eye covered in solidarity, while hundreds more, including celebrities, imitated the move online. On the other hand, Palestinians buried their dead as ceasefire entered [ More … ]
Esraa Abdel Fattah was detained on Saturday, October 12 by plainclothes police officers and the following morning another journalist Mostafa al-Khatib was also arrested. These arrests came after Italian journalist Francesca Borri was detained on [ More … ]
The accolade honors the Saudi journalist and others, including those from the Capital Gazette, killed or imprisoned in 2018 Time magazine has collectively named Jamal Khashoggi and other killed and imprisoned journalists as its “person [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities on Sunday have denied entry and deported prominent Sudanese journalist al-Tahir Satti at Cairo International Airport. Satti arrived at Cairo airport from Khartoum on Sunday to join his wife who travelled to Egypt [ More … ]
A court in Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa has sentenced a veteran journalist to death for spying for Saudi Arabia, Houthi media and a journalists’ association have reported. Yahya Abdulraqeeb Al-Jubaihi, a veteran journalist, was accused by [ More … ]
Israeli authorities ordered on Monday the release 25-year-old Palestinian journalist Samah Ala al-Din Dweik after she completes a six-month prison sentence. Dweik was detained on April 10 in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras [ More … ]
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