Egypt arrests journalist, wife of jailed cartoonist after interview - Committee to Protect Journalists

Egypt arrests journalist, wife of jailed cartoonist after interview - Committee to Protect Journalists

Washington, D.C., January 16, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns Egypt’s January 16 arrests of Nada Mougheeth, wife of imprisoned cartoonist Ashraf Omar, and journalist Ahmed Serag, who was detained after interviewing Mougheeth about Omar’s ongoing detention and alleged human rights violations surrounding his arrest.  Mougheeth and Serag appeared before Egypt’s Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) on Thursday. Whi…

Egypt: Wife of detained cartoonist Ashraf Omar arrested after podcast appearance

Nada Mougheeth was taken from her home a month after revealing details of her husband's arrest in an interview

Egypt arrests wife of detained cartoonist Ashraf Omar

An Egyptian lawyer announced on Thursday that the wife of a well-known satirical cartoonist who was detained last year by authorities has now also been disappeared. Nada Mougheeth, the wife of Ashraf Omar, was taken from her home early on Thursday, according to The New Arab’s Arabic language sister publication, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Lawyer Khaled Ali made the announcement on social media, adding that she is in pretrial detention pending further in…