Media Advocates Urge Egypt to Release Detained Journalists

Media activists have criticized Egypt for “repression” of journalists following the arrest of a cartoonist and a reporter. Egyptian authorities arrested the journalists as part of a wider crackdown in response to calls for protests over President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi's handling of the economy. The protest did not take place, but authorities arrested about 125 people, including Khaled Mamdouh and Ashraf Omar. Both were held incommunicado for several days. Dozens of journalists gathered at the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate headquarters in downtown Cairo last week to protest the arrests and show solidarity with their jailed colleagues, Yeganeh Rezaian told VOA. She is the acting Middle East and North Africa program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ. Nader Hashemi, a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic politics at Georgetown University, said the crackdown “reminds us of the severe human rights crisis in Egypt today.” “This kind of arrest is not new in Egypt,” Hashemi told VOA via email. Omar, a cartoonist for an independent news outlet Al-Manassawas arrested at his home in Giza on July 22, a media group said. A human rights lawyer quoted by Omar media said that when he went to the police station to ask …

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