Annual Report 2008: Egypt
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
16 April 2008
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The proposed legislation threatens to undermine fair trial protections and entrench abuses by authorities, warn human rights groups.
“It is a profound disgrace for Egypt to silence such a vital voice of conscience behind bars.”
IFEX and 33 rights groups demand the release of detained and forcibly disappeared journalists, and an end to the assault on press freedoms.