Lina Attalah, the head of Egypt’s independent outlet Mada Masr, is due to appear in a criminal court on Wednesday, 11 November, facing possible prison time in a retrial that has drawn international attention. She is being retried over a one-year prison sentence handed down in absentia (while Attalah was not present in court) in 2024, for operating a news website without a licence and “publishing false news.” She learned of the sentence last month, upon her release from detention following a separate misdemeanour trial on similar charges. In that earlier case, a court fined Attalah EGP 3 million (USD 55,000) for operating the website without a licence, and also ordered the closure of Mada Masr. Consequently, an appeal against the shutdown is scheduled for 25 November. Her eight-lawyer defence team described a rushed trial in which the judge appointed a defence lawyer for her and then proceeded to write the defence statement on that lawyer’s behalf. Attalah had come to court expecting, at worst, a fine. Instead, security personnel detained her. She spent more than seven hours in detention, and was released after supporters crowdsourced the fine andContinue reading "Egypt’s Mada Masr Chief Lina Attalah Faces Retrial"
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