Egyptian editor faces trial after hours of questioning
Lina Attalah faces a possible fine of up to 3 million Egyptian pounds after prosecutors dropped a false-news allegation from the referral.
- On Thursday, the Supreme State Prosecution referred Mada Masr editor-in-chief Lina Attalah to a New Cairo misdemeanors court for operating a website without a license.
- Mada Masr has sought government licensure since 2018, the same year Egypt ratified press regulation laws, but authorities remained unresponsive to repeated applications.
- Prosecutors released Attalah on Wednesday after she posted 100,000 Egyptian pounds bail; if convicted, she faces a financial penalty ranging from 1 million to 3 million Egyptian pounds.
- Defense lawyer Hassan Al-Azhari criticized the "unjustified urgency" of the referral, noting the trial is slated to begin on October 27.
- The Committee to Protect Journalists warned that Egypt is "weaponizing its media law" amid a broader crackdown that recently arrested six journalists from the Matsadaash platform.
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Egyptian editor faces trial after hours of questioning
Egyptian prosecutors referred Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of independent news outlet Mada Masr, to trial on a charge of operating a website without a license, after questioning her for more than six hours.
Urgent Global Call Following the Referral of Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah to Trial - The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
Over a hundred civil society organizations and independent media outlets from around the world have come together to stand in solidarity with Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah following her referral to trial in Egypt. The post Urgent Global Call Following the Referral of Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah to Trial first appeared on The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy.
In case No. 9072 of 2026, the Supreme State Security Prosecutor, Lena Attallah, editor-in-chief of the Egypt-wide site, was referred to the Criminal Court. On 27 October, she set the date for her first trial, in case No. 9072 of 2026, for the purpose of restricting the security of a higher State. The decision to refer the case was taken hours after the prosecutor ' s decision to release Attallah on a financial guarantee of [...].
At the 21st meeting of October 2026, the Supreme State Security Prosecutor decided to release journalist Lina Attallah, editor-in-chief of the Egypt-wide site, with a financial guarantee of £100,000, in case No. 9072 of 2026. After a more than six-hour investigation session, the prosecutor charged Attallah with publishing and broadcasting news [...] The post of releasing Lina Attah by bailing 100,000 pounds appeared first on the Foundation for F…
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