Mada Masr

NPR's Aya Batrawy reports this comes as part of a larger suppression of press freedoms in Egypt.

The independent English and Arabic news outlet Mada Masr says its editor-in-chief Lina Atalla is being charged with establishing, managing and operating a website without a license.

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights says Atala will be tried by state prosecutors after she was released on bail Thursday following more than six hours of questioning.

Mada Mastra says it legally challenged the state's rejection of its request for a license in 2022 and that its request for a license has been pending since 2023.

According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, "...certain politicians in Paraguay and Belize have willingly served as pawns of the Taiwan authorities in their attempts to seek Taiwan independence by soliciting external forces." In particular, their offenses include visiting Taiwan, meeting with Taiwanese politicians, and spreading, quote, disinformation about Chinese cyber attacks to smear and attack China, end quote.

In Africa and Sudan, Mada Masr's Hassan al-Nasr suggests that a perceived need to centralize the rapid support force's command structure may wind up destroying the militant group.

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It all operates under the single, unchallenged, you know, state voice.

All independent outlets like Manasa and Mada Masr and all those places, they're all suppressed or banned.

Their journalists are also arrested.

The whole landscape of art and literature and cinema has been kind of converted into this state-managed production company geared toward, you know, patriotism and all those kind of buzzwords.

So I think, let me start maybe by telling you what I think hasn't changed, and that's really the, the commitment to our region and to thinking of a better region.

I think the reason we had so many great organizations born during that time, Mada Masr is another Egyptian independent media outlet that was born around the same time.

I think Rasiff is celebrating a, a birthday recently as well.

There's a few great organizations, um, Megaphone.

Uh, we don't get information that we need un- unless we have access to independent journalism, and that work is becoming more important than ever.

In this group, I would say be sure you're following Megaphone.

Be sure you're following, um, Mada Masr, uh, i- Megaphone in, in Lebanon, although it covers the region.

Darej as well, and Mada Masr in Egypt, although there are so many to mention.

Nicholas Barrio reports for The Wall Street Journal.

Egyptian authorities yesterday arrested the entire editorial team of independent media outlet Mada Masr, accusing them of belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

The six journalists are alleged to have produced fabricated news for an online outlet in exchange for foreign funding.

Mada Masr co-founder Abdel Rahman Mansour denied the allegations and said he and the arrested individuals' families have no idea where those who were arrested are.

Bolivian Interior Minister Marco Antonio Oviedo yesterday said Bolivia's Attorney General Roger Mariaca on Wednesday was arrested two days after the United States revoked his visa and accused him of accepting bribes to facilitate drug trafficking.

Mariaca was arrested alongside 13 other people as part of an operation targeting what authorities described as a criminal organization embedded within the judiciary and the public prosecutor's office.