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Less press freedom than ever in Egypt, 10 years after revolution

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 president [...]

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Group: Egypt arrests 2 journalists, one sick with COVID-19

By Associated Press Egyptian security forces have arrested two journalists, including one sick with COVID-19, the latest step in a sweeping crackdown on news media during the pandemic, an [...]

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Egypt forces Guardian journalist to leave after coronavirus story

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 [...]

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Coptic Solidarity Urges Immediate Release of Coptic Activist, Ramy Kamel

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 [...]

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Egyptian Police Raid Country’s Last Independent News Outlet

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 [...]

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Independent Egyptian media outlet says editor arrested

By AP — A prominent investigative media outlet in Egypt says security forces have detained one of its editors, the latest arrest amid a wider crackdown on dissent. Mada Masr, one of a shrinking [...]

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Plainclothes security raid Mada Masr office for several hours, detain 3 including Chief Editor Lina Attalah

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 [...]

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Egypt is jailing more journalists on ‘false news’ charges than anywhere else in the world

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 [...]

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Egypt: Proposed law to muzzle Muslim scholars and thinkers

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 [...]

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Egypt’s New Media Regulations: Legislating State Control over Information

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 media regulators, the [...]

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