Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah, journalists Rana Mamdouh, Sara Seif Eddin and Beesan Kassab were released on bail on Wednesday evening after interrogation sessions at the Cairo Appeals Prosecution. The Mada Masr editor-in-chief and three [ More … ]
The Cairo Appeals Prosecution summoned Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah and journalists Rana Mamdouh, Sara Seif Eddin and Beesan Kassab for interrogation Wednesday at the Public Prosecution office in Rehab. Mada Masr’s defense team stated [ More … ]
The Egyptian government uses pro-regime TV presenters and media to undertake smear campaigns against critical journalists, states a new RSF report. The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) organization says in a report that the al-Sisi regime [ More … ]
A court in Egypt has assigned the Public Prosecution Office to include four journalists overseas on the Interpol red notice, track, and arrest them, in a continued effort from Egyptian regime to suppress dissenting voices. [ More … ]
Egyptian journalists meeting with the government’s National Council for Human Rights demanded that the government stop blocking independent news sites and release their jailed colleagues, reported Darb. Members of the government’s National Council for Human [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities arrested Tawfiq Ghanem on May 2, where the veteran journalist has been detained for over 150 days. Several global rights watchdogs have called for the release of journalist Tawfiq Ghanem, a former regional [ More … ]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has issued an alert about three journalists held in Egypt’s prisons who are denied proper medical attention for serious ailments they suffer from. The RSF organization says they must be released [ More … ]
Reporters Without Borders called on Egypt on Thursday to release four Al Jazeera journalists immediately. Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) known as Reporters has called for the immediate release of an Al Jazeera journalist who was [ More … ]
Fake journalists, experts, news outlets attack role of Turkey, Qatar in the region, investigation finds out. At least 19 fake experts with fake personas have placed more than 90 opinion pieces in 46 different publications [ More … ]
Western correspondents get to choose when they face danger. Journalists in Egypt deal with it every day – Richard Hall’s Independent Article There are no safety provisions for independent journalists in Egypt and other authoritarian [ More … ]
Tensions in the Gulf between the US, Saudi Arabia and Iran have been exacerbated this week with the deployment of Houthi strikes on the neighboring kingdom. Yemen’s Houthis launched two attacks on a Saudi airport [ More … ]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) unveils portraits of Egyptian journalists jailed by the Sisi regime in Cairo While French President Emmanuel Macron prepares was to go on a state visit to Cairo on 27 January, Reporters [ More … ]
Three times more journalists were jailed this year on “false news” charges than in 2016 — and Egypt led the way, reported Poynter. According to a new report published by the Committee to Protect Journalists on [ More … ]
Late on Tuesday, Egyptian police raided the office of a news website and arrested its editor-in-chief, according to three of its journalists, including its managing editor. The raid came two days after the Supreme Council [ More … ]
Ahead of a farcical election, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi goes after the press. His tone has turned dark, with threats and talk of conspiracies. Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi could not ask for a better mouthpiece than Khairy Ramadan, a [ More … ]
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