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Egypt fines prominent editor Lina Attalah and shuts independent news outlet Mada Masr

THE GUARDIAN — WORLD · Peter Beaumont ·

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Warnings of escalating clampdown on press freedom come after Cairo court convicts Attalah of managing an unlicensed website Lina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Masr, has been released from detention by Egypt’s authorities and had her website ordered to be shut down by a court amid an intensifying crackdown on independent media in the…

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