Egypt: The Freedom of the Press and Speech Are Endanger Confiscation and Monitoring Included Algomhuria and El-Shab Newspapers and El-Mosawr Magazine

press release

ANHRI is severely annoyed of the increasing of the Monitoring and confiscation policy imposed on the Egyptian newspapers. Algomhuria stopped a page deal with the freedom of speech and confiscation in Egypt which is the culture page. El-Mosawr Magzine stopped publishing the rest of the series of the book "returning from the Brotherhood's paradise". In the same time, an edition of El-Shab newspaper was confiscated, which was prepared to be distributing due to an article of the Egyptian Intelligence body.

The monitoring and confiscation increased after the expansion in following journalists and writers like the journalist "Abdelhalim Qandeel", editor in chief of Sout Al-Omma newspaper, "Adel Hamouda" editor in chief of Alfajr newspaper and "Osama Afify" editor in cheif of "El-Dostor" newspaper as well as confiscating the newspaper due to allegations of insulting the president. "Alfareen" channel was stopped for two months due to accusations of threating the president and inciting on violence.

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