Cairo Court Convicts Mada Masr Editor as Press-Freedom Warnings Mount
The Guardian reports Egypt fined Lina Attalah and shut Mada Masr; a Cairo court convicted her of managing an unlicensed website. She was briefly detained, then released, and international concerns followed.
The Guardian reported that Egypt fined Lina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and editor-in-chief of the independent outlet Mada Masr, and that Egypt shut Mada Masr. A Cairo court convicted her of managing an unlicensed website, and a court ordered the Mada Masr website to be shut down.
For sovereignty-minded readers, this is a law-and-order story: a Cairo court convicted Attalah of managing an unlicensed website, and Egyptian authorities took her briefly into custody after the conviction; they released her from detention.
Critics of international pressure will see a familiar pattern: The Guardian reported fresh international concerns over press freedom in Egypt after the conviction, and warnings of an escalating clampdown on press freedom.
Original reporting
The Guardian
Egypt fines prominent editor Lina Attalah and shuts independent news outlet Mada Masr
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 ordered to be shut down by a court amid an intensifying crackdown on independent media in the country. Attalah was taken briefly into custody after a Cairo court convicted her of managing an unlicensed website, prompting fresh international concerns over press freedom in Egypt. Continue reading...
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Facts this version was allowed to use
- The Guardian reported that Egypt fined Lina Attalah.
- The Guardian reported that Egypt shut the independent news outlet Mada Masr.
- Lina Attalah is a prominent Egyptian journalist.
- Lina Attalah is the editor-in-chief of Mada Masr.
- Mada Masr is an independent news outlet.
- Egyptian authorities released Lina Attalah from detention.
- A court ordered the Mada Masr website to be shut down.
- A Cairo court convicted Lina Attalah of managing an unlicensed website.
- Lina Attalah was taken briefly into custody after the conviction.
- The Guardian reported warnings of an escalating clampdown on press freedom.
- The Guardian reported that the conviction prompted fresh international concerns over press freedom in Egypt.
- The court that convicted Lina Attalah was in Cairo.
- The authorities that detained and released Lina Attalah were Egyptian.
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