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"Dark Day for Journalism": Egypt Shutters Independent News Site Mada Masr, Detains Editor

Democracy Now! · 3 hours ago

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. Mada Masr is “the…

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