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By Reporters Without Borders – On 25 January, Egypt will mark the 10th anniversary of the revolution that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and led to Mohamed Morsi’s election as [...]

By The Guardian – Egyptian authorities have forced a Guardian journalist to leave the country after she reported on a scientific study that said Egypt was likely to have many more [...]

By Coptic Solidarity- Standard News Wire For Immediate Release Coptic Solidarity strongly condemns the arrest of Ramy Kamel, a Coptic human rights activist and social media blogger in Egypt being [...]

By Jared Malsin – The Wall Street Journal – President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has increased censorship in recent years and blocked access to more than 500 websites. CAIRO—Egyptian [...]

By Mada Masr – Security forces detained three Mada Masr journalists during an afternoon raid on the paper’s offices in Cairo today, before releasing them several hours later, at around 6:15 [...]

By Daniel Funke – Poynter – Three times more journalists were jailed this year on “false news” charges than in 2016 — and Egypt led the way. According to a new report published by the [...]

By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah – Voice of the Copts Egyptian “democracy” is an endless comedy if you’re not suffering at the hands of it. Last month, Amr Hamroush, a graduate of Al-Ahzar Institute [...]

By Mai el-Sadany – The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy –  Nearly one and a half years after Egypt’s parliament voted on legislation to create three new [...]

By Amnesty International – The crackdown on freedom of expression under Egyptian President Abdelfattah al-Sisi has reached alarming new levels unparalleled in Egypt’s recent history, [...]

By Elissa Miller – Atlantic Council –  Internet censorship around the world, including in the Middle East, is not a new phenomenon. Freedom of expression facilitated by the internet [...]