On December 8, the Administrative Court will issue its verdict regarding Judge Murad’s demand to ban 51 blogs and websites, deemed “harmful for national security and insulting to the president.” The list includes my blog.
More details in the following HRINFO statement.
From the Daily News Egypt:
Egypt came in at the bottom of the rankings in this year’s World Press Freedom Index, an annual rating published by Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) measuring the level of press freedom around the world.
Coming in at number 146 out of 169 countries evaluated, Egypt dropped 13 spots from number 133 last year.
Eritrea features last on the index, replacing North Korea who took bottom spot last year.
“There is nothing surprising about this. Eritrea deserves to be at the bottom. The privately-owned press has been banished by the authoritarian President Issaias Afeworki and the few journalists who dare to criticize the regime are thrown in prison. We know that four of them have died in detention and we have every reason to fear that others will suffer the same fate,” RSF stated.
From the Daily Star Egypt:
The decision by over 20 of Egypt’s independent and opposition newspapers to suspend publication Monday has made headline news worldwide.
Monday’s protest against the government’s recent clampdown on the Egyptian press has attracted media attention from the US to Europe and from the Gulf to Australia.