Worst crisis for Egyptian journalism in decades as eighteen arrested in short span of crackdown | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Egypt has a record-high number of journalists who are imprisoned in the country, a press watchdog said Thursday, condemning the “unprecedented” danger that journalists working in Egypt face. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), in its report, found that at least 18 Egyptian journalists were being held for reasons mostly related to their reporting, and added…

Journalists are facing “unprecedented threats” in Egypt with a record number behind bars, mostly for links with ousted president Mohamed Morsy’s banned Muslim Brotherhood, a media watchdog said Thursday. The Committee to Protect Journalists said at least 18 journalists, many of whom worked for online media, were locked up in Egypt, the most since it began…