Egypt

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: IFJ Condemns Raids and Intimidation of Journalists in Egypt The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the Egyptian government over raids and threats that have forced an Internet journalist to go into hiding to escape police harassment. Abdul-Jalil Al-Sharnouby, a member of the Egyptian Syndicate […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – “The systematic campaign launched by the Egyptian government against opposition candidates and the Muslim Brotherhood to prevent them from running in the next local elections in Egypt should not divert attention from the increase in the number of prisoners of conscience,” as stated on 9 March 2008 by HRinfo. Dr. Ayman Nour who […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – On 3 March 2008, one year after blogger Kareem Amer was sent to prison, HRinfo stated that the campaign launched by some independent newspapers has proven that Kareem Amer is innocent of the charge for which he was convicted: insulting the president. Amer was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment over an article that […]

Freedom of the Press 2007: Egypt

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders condemns the Egyptian government’s decision on 19 February 2008 to ban four foreign newspapers that reprinted some of the cartoons that were published by 17 Danish newspapers on 13 February in a show of solidarity on the issue of freedom of expression. “Banning the distribution of newspapers that reproduced the […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – The El Arish Partial Court issued a decision on 16 February 2008 to free the novelist and activist Musaad Suleiman Hassan, a.k.a. Musaad Abu Fagr. This is the third such court ruling within a week. This latest ruling follows the 14 February decision of the Public Prosecutor in El Arish, North Sinai, to […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: Egypt: Appellate upholds conviction of Al-Jazeera reporter, but strikes down prison sentence Cairo, February 11, 2008 – An appeals court in Cairo today upheld the conviction of an Al-Jazeera journalist charged with harming Egypt’s reputation for her work on a documentary about torture, but struck down […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – The following is an abbreviated version of a joint statement by HRinfo and several other Egyptian human rights organisations: Human rights organisations consider Abo Fagr a prisoner of conscience Egyptian human rights organisations denounced today the continued imprisonment of political blogger and activist Mosaad Abo Fagr, the head of the movement “We want […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders calls on the Egyptian authorities to stop harassing reporter Howayda Taha of the pan-Arab satellite TV station Al-Jazeera, who was arrested on 28 January 2008 together with her cameraman while doing a report on farm workers in Nikla, a village near Giza (20 km southwest of Cairo). “Taha’s investigative reporting […]

(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a Human Rights Watch press release: Egypt: Government Shuts Down Protest Following Bush Visit Egypt Detains Democracy Activists While Rejecting EU Criticism of Rights Abuses (New York, January 21, 2008) – Egyptian security forces prevented demonstrators from holding a peaceful protest in Cairo’s Saida Zeinab Square on January 17, arbitrarily […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – In a court ruling restoring hope in the hearts of all defenders of freedom of opinion and expression in Egypt and the world, the Administrative Judicial Court issued a decision on 29 December 2007 in Case No. 15575 / 61, in which Judge Abdul Fattah Murad sought a ban on 51 Egyptian websites. […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – HRinfo condemns the continuing wave of collective legal cases brought against journalists in Egypt, as six lawsuits for insult and defamation were brought before the Misdemeanors Court of El-Agouza on 10 December 2007 against journalist Wael El Ibrashi, chief editor of “Sawt El-Omma”, an independent newspaper. The lawsuits were filed by businessmen, managers […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF strongly condemns the arrest of journalist Hossam el-Hendy at Helwan University, south of Cairo, as “an attempt to intimate all bloggers in Egypt” after officials there reported him to police for taking photos and sending messages about a demonstration on his mobile phone. El-Hendy, 22, who works for the daily paper “Al-Dustour” […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – The Arabic Network for Human Rights information and Hisham Mubarak Centre for Law has sent a communiqué to the Egyptian Prosecutor-General, demanding that he investigate the torture of Karim Amer. Karim, an Egyptian blogger sentenced to prison for four years for “vilifying religions” and “defaming” the president, was tortured on the order and […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 29 October 2007 CPJ press release: Egyptian journalists convicted amid wave of libel cases New York, October 29, 2007 – The criminal libel convictions and one-month jail terms handed down Saturday against journalists for an Egyptian opposition daily are part of a government-organized campaign to silence the press and […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – On 28 October 2007, yet another Egyptian journalist was sentenced to jail. The Assiut criminal court sentenced Yonis Darwish, an Assiut-based correspondent for the opposition newspaper “El-Wafd”, to one month in prison. The case relates to a news story the newspaper published about a municipal session. A lawsuit was filed against Darwish by […]