Newsflash: Crackdown on press freedoms in Egypt
October 8th, 2007 · 2 Comments
A shorter post this time (more meaty posts to come as term has now started here in Oxford and I can resume blogging about seminars and events here) but no less important:
In case you have missed it, there is a serious crackdown on journalism going on in Egypt at the moment (though Egypt was never a paragon of press freedom, as can be seen here and here) - ongoing harassment and imprisonment of journalists sort of culminated a few days ago with the start of the trial> of one of Egypt's most controversial editors, Ibrahim Issa (editor of Al-Dustour [The Constitution], a weekly opposition newspaper that, among other things, syndicates blog posts). The attacks on journalism have also included bloggers, as can be seen in this article. Yesterday, independent newspapers staged a protest in which they called a one-day strike to raise awareness of the actions of the Egyptian regime.
Read the annual report on Egypt from Reporters Without Borders here>.
Tags: Freedom of speech · Blogging · Arab World · Arab journalism · Egypt
2 responses so far ↓
Daniel B. // Oct 15, 2007 at 4:59 am
Imprisonment is bad… these voices need to be heard! Egypt should, at the very least, know better. Never mind the palm tree suburbs of Dubai.
Edwin // Jan 19, 2008 at 5:18 am
there is a serious crackdown on journalism going on in Egypt at the moment (though Egypt was never a paragon of press freedom, it must be bad Imprisonment.
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