Egypt: Anti-Muslim Brotherhood Witch-Hunt Exacts Heavy Toll

press release

Far from the media attention and international support that three Al-Jazeera journalists received last June when given sentences ranging from seven to ten years in prison, other journalists are continuing to pay a high price for criticizing President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's government and its repressive policies.

They include Imad Abu Zeid, 49, the newspaper Ahram Gate's correspondent in Beni Suef (100 km south of Cairo), who was sentenced by a Beni Suef criminal court to three years in prison on 1 September on a charge of being a member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

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