Name: Abdallah Ahmed Mohamed El-Fakharani (Abdallah El-Falharani) Occupation: Founding member and correspondent Place of work: Rassd news network Date of arrest: 25 August 2013 Referral to criminal court: April 2014 First sentence by…

Name: Mohamed Hassan Mostafa Occupation: Photojournalist Place of work: Alnaba’a newspaper Date of arrest: 26 September 2016 Legal status: Precautionary detention, renewable by Cairo criminal court Place of detention: Tora prison complex –…

Name: Mohamed Mohamed Mostafa Eladly Occupation: Correspondent and anchor Place of work: Amgad satellite channel Date of arrest: 25 August 2013 Referral to criminal court: April 2014 First sentence by criminal court: Life, on 11 April 2015…

Name: Ismail Elsayed Mohamed Omar Taufik (Ismail Eleskandarani) Occupation: Researcher and Journalist Date of arrest: 29 November 2015 Legal status: Precautionary detention Place of detention: Tora prison complex – Tora farm prison Leal…

Name: Mahmoud Hussein Gomaa Occupation: Journalist Organization: Al Jazeera TV Date of arrest: December 22 2016 Legal status: pretrial detention Case number: 11152/2016 Mahmoud Hussein is an Egyptian journalist, who worked as an editor in…

Montazah Prosecution, Alexandria, has handed lawyer Mohamed Ramadan another 15-day detention order pending case 16576/2018. The lawyer will be transferred to El Ghorbaniat Prison in Burj Al Arab Detention Center, according to his lawyer…

1 January 2019 Zagazig Criminal Court extended the pretrial detention of Islam Farahat, journalist at Masr Al-Arabia website, for 45 days pending investigations in case 1600/2018 state security.Remanding Farahat is affecting is health…

The Association of Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) issued a position paper on December 2nd, 2017, on the Rainbow case. Activists, Sarah Hegazy and Ahmed Alaa are accused in the case. AFTE publishes a summary of the paper in English…

Report prepared by Hassan Elazhary and Mohamed El Taher with the participation of website monitor, Sarah Mohsen The list of blocked websites can be found via this linkIntroduction Since the beginning of the large-scale block of websites by…

View full report in PDF There is still a steady decline in the situation of freedom of expression in Egypt, where various state institutions are involved in restricting freedom of expression and prosecuting individuals who express…