"A Crackdown on All Independent Voices": Egypt Shutters News Outlets, Prosecutes Editor Lina Attalah
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"A Crackdown on All Independent Voices": Egypt Shutters News Outlets, Prosecutes Editor Lina Attalah
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"Putting us in jail is not going to solve the country's problems," says Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, Egypt's leading independent media outlet. Attalah faces a criminal trial this week on charges of "spreading false information." A judge also ordered Mada Masr to be shut down.
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4"Putting us in jail is not going to solve the country's problems," says Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, Egypt's leading independent media outlet. Attalah faces a criminal trial this week on charges of "spreading false information." A judge also ordered Mada Masr to be shut down.
"A Crackdown on All Independent Voices": Egypt Shutters News Outlets, Prosecutes Editor Lina Attalah
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.…
democracynow.org ↗As Egyptian authorities move to shutter Mada Masr—one of the country’s last remaining independent media outlets—co-founder and editor-in-chief Lina Attalah writes about the struggle to continue.
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