Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of a newspaper editor and a blogger, whose arrests have brought the number of journalists detained arbitrarily in Egypt to 31.
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Following China and Turkey
Sisi’s Egypt is the third worst jailer of journalists worldwide.
Collective punishment in Scorpion Prison
Egyptian security agencies in mid-November 2020 introduced changes in Cairo’s Maximum Security Prison 992, known as Scorpion Prison, that almost completely deprive inmates of adequate ventilation, electricity, and hot water, HRW stated in a new report.