"A Crackdown on All Independent Voices": Egypt Shutters News Outlets, Prosecutes Editor Lina Attalah

Summary

Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of Egypt’s leading independent news outlet Mada Masr , faces a criminal trial this week on charges of “spreading false information,” just two weeks after being convicted of operating an unlicensed website and fined more than $50,000. A judge also ordered the publication to be shut down. The cases are part of a broader crackdown on independent Egyptian media under the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, including the arrest of the entire newsroom of another outlet, _ Matsadaash_. More than 100 organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights…

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