An Egyptian court ordered the closure of one of Egypt’s last independent news outlets Tuesday after convicting its editor-in-chief of operating a website without a license in a major blow to the country’s shrinking press freedom.
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Court orders closure of one of Egypt’s last independent media outlets, detains and fines editor
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CPJ, partners condemn Egyptian authorities’ shutdown of Mada Masr, stand with editor-in-chief Lina Attalah
An Egyptian court convicted Mada Masr editor-in-chief Lina Attalah for operating an unlicensed website, fined her 3 million Egyptian pounds, ordered the outlet closed and its equipment confiscated, and detained her pending payment.
A court in Cairo has ordered the closure of the independent Egyptian news site Mada Masr . The court also ordered the site’s editor-in-chief, Lina Attalah, to be detained until she pays a fine of over $50,000. She was convicted on charges of managing an unlicensed website.
Committee to Protect Journalists's feed description
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the conviction of Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of the independent Egyptian news outlet Mada Masr, on charges of running an unlicensed website, and calls on Egyptian authorities to reverse the ruling, release the journalist immediately, and end their esc…
An Egyptian court ordered the closure of one of Egypt’s last independent news outlets Tuesday after convicting its editor-in-chief of operating a website without a license in a major blow to the country’s shrinking press freedom.
Editor-in-chief Lina Attalah was briefly detained and fined over licensing violations. Rights groups condemned the ruling as a major blow to press freedom in Egypt, where independent media face growing pressure.
A Cairo court ordered the closure of Mada Masr, one of Egypt’s few remaining independent news outlets, and fined its editor-in-chief for operating it without a license.
Committee to Protect Journalists's feed description
The Committee to Protect Journalists and 128 organizations condemn the conviction of Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of the independent Egyptian news outlet Mada Masr, and denounce the court’s order to shut down one of the country’s last remaining independent newsrooms.
Warnings of escalating clampdown on press freedom come after Cairo court convicts Attalah of managing an unlicensed website Lina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Masr, has been released from detention by Egypt’s authorities and had her website …
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