press freedom

Dozens of lawyers protested in front of the High Court on Thursday to denounce alleged attempts to censor and influence…

Thursday’s press shows conflicting reports about the future of journalists convicted of libel and defamation in the Muslim Brotherhood-led political…

  A local human rights watchdog has urged lawyers to join the defense team of the media host Tawfiq Okasha…

More than a month ago, the Muslim Brotherhood’s mouthpiece newspaper coined two dichotomous categories of media. One was “the black…

A number of columnists in privately-owned newspapers such as Al-Watan, Youm7 and Al-Tahrir published blank opinion articles on Thursday to…

The Freedom and Justice Party’s foreign relations committee head Gehad al-Haddad defended the recent confiscation of Al-Dostour newspaper’s Saturday edition,…

The Egyptian Journalists Syndicate announced Thursday that it would suspend ties with the Sudanese Journalists Union due to “its chief…

Egypt's president has flown a journalist detained for nearly two weeks in Sudan after covering protests there back to Cairo…

  Egyptian journalist Shaimaa Adel, who has been detained in Khartoum since 3 July, is due to be released within…

An Ethiopian court on Friday jailed a journalist for 18 years for "terrorism" and 23 other reporters and activists for…