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Micha Tobia retweeted
CPJ joined partner organizations in condemning the referral to trial of @MadaMasr editor-in-chief Lina Attalah. The case is the latest escalation in Egypt’s press crackdown, which has included the arrest of Matsdaash journalists and prosecutors summoning journalist Rasha Azab.
Read CPJ and partners’ letter⤵️
cpj.org/?p=629841
Micha Tobia retweeted
Urgent Global Call Following the Referral of Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah to Trial
Legal Agenda among 119 civil society organizations and independent media outlets from around the world, joined together to condemn the unprecedented attack on press freedom in Egypt following the referral of Egyptian journalist and Editor-in-Chief of independent media outlet Mada Masr Lina Attalah to trial.
The statement said "What we are seeing unfold in Egypt today is an egregious escalation that cannot be allowed to stand. Should we remain silent in the face of such, we can only expect the permanent shuttering and closure of what remains of Egyptian independent media, civil society, and organizing. The stakes could not be higher".
Read the full statement: cutt.ly/FyTmjEsY
Micha Tobia retweeted
CPJ, partners condemn referral of Mada Masr editor Lina Attalah to trial
cpj.org/?p=629841
Micha Tobia retweeted
كل التضامن مع الصديقة العزيزة لينا عطا الله ( @Linaattalah ) و مع فريقها المبهر في مدى مصر ( @MadaMasr ) .
الإعلام المستقل ركن أساسي في أي دولة محترمة، وإحنا كمصريين محظوظين بوجود مدى في وسطنا.
في أقل من 24 ساعة، تضامنت أكثر من 119 مؤسسة إعلامية ومنظمة مجتمع مدني حول العالم مع @Linaattalah رئيسة تحرير @MadaMasr، بعد إحالتها إلى المحاكمة بتهمة إدارة موقع دون ترخيص. ويشارك معهد التحرير هذه المؤسسات في إدانة هذا التصعيد الخطير بحق الصحافة في مصر.
timep.org/post-arabic/%d9%86…
Micha Tobia retweeted
In less than 24 hours, 119 civil society orgs & independent media outlets from around the world have come together to stand in solidarity with @MadaMasr Editor-in-Chief @Linaattalah following her referral to trial in Egypt. TIMEP is proud to be among them: timep.org/2026/10/23/urgent-…
Micha Tobia retweeted
في أقل من 24 ساعة، تضامنت أكثر من 119 مؤسسة إعلامية ومنظمة مجتمع مدني حول العالم مع @Linaattalah رئيسة تحرير @MadaMasr، بعد إحالتها إلى المحاكمة بتهمة إدارة موقع دون ترخيص. ويشارك معهد التحرير هذه المؤسسات في إدانة هذا التصعيد الخطير بحق الصحافة في مصر.
timep.org/post-arabic/%d9%86…
Micha Tobia retweeted
Soutien à @Linaattalah et toute la rédaction de @MadaMasr 🇪🇬
Leur rigueur et leur constance nous montre la voie : restons groupé·es face aux attaques des autocrates déjà au pouvoir ou en devenir
#JournalismIsNotACrime
We have not been defeated yet.
قررت نيابة أمن الدولة العليا، اليوم، إحالة رئيسة تحرير «مدى مصر»، لينا عطالله، إلى محكمة جنح القاهرة الجديدة، بتهمة تأسيس وإدارة موقع إلكتروني بدون ترخيص، فيما حددت المحكمة الثلاثاء المقبل، 27 أكتوبر، موعدًا لأولى جلسات محاكمتها، بحسب محامي المؤسسة، حسن الأزهري. الأزهري اعتبر أن الإحالة بعد ساعات من انتهاء التحقيق، وتحديد جلسة عاجلة خلال أقل من أسبوع، يمثل «تعجل غير مبرر» في ظل عدم وجود ما يستدعي سرعة نظر القضية. storage.googleapis.com/madam…
Micha Tobia retweeted
Less than a month after arresting the entire Matsadaash newsroom, the Egyptian govt has now filed baseless charges against the editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, continuing their largest crackdown in years.
This assault on the free press must end NOW. Journalism is not a crime.
CPJ condemns the referral of @MadaMasr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah to trial for operating a website without a license that Egyptian authorities have themselves refused to grant for years. Egypt is weaponizing its media law to punish independent journalism and intensify one of its worst crackdowns on the press in years, which began with the arrest of six Matsdaash journalists. It is long past time for Egypt to end this campaign and allow independent media to report freely.
Micha Tobia retweeted
Egypt's outrageous crackdown on independent media is escalating, with the referral of Lina Attalah, editor in chief of @MadaMasr, to trial:
madamasr.com/en/2026/10/22/n…
Micha Tobia retweeted
Outrageous from Egypt. Mada Masr does incredibly important work.
CPJ condemns the referral of @MadaMasr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah to trial for operating a website without a license that Egyptian authorities have themselves refused to grant for years. Egypt is weaponizing its media law to punish independent journalism and intensify one of its worst crackdowns on the press in years, which began with the arrest of six Matsdaash journalists. It is long past time for Egypt to end this campaign and allow independent media to report freely.
Micha Tobia retweeted
The news site @MadaMasr has been a light in the darkness of Egyptian and Middle East journalism for the last decade, and @linaattalah the shining star at its helm. Frightening and worrying that the authorities should be coming after them now.
Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah was referred to trial on Thursday on charges of establishing and managing a website without a license. Sessions will begin on October 27, according to lawyer Hassan al-Azhari, Mada Masr’s legal counsel, who described the “haste” in the trial referral, which came just hours after the interrogation closed, and its scheduling for the coming week as “unjustified urgency” given the absence of circumstances in the case that require rapid resolution. storage.googleapis.com/madam…
Micha Tobia retweeted
In an absolutely egregious escalation against press freedom, Egyptian journalist and @MadaMasr Editor-in-Chief @Linaattalah has been referred to trial on charges of establishing, managing, and operating a website without a license. Her trial is set to begin this Tuesday, Oct 27.
Micha Tobia retweeted
Egypt is weaponizing its media law to punish independent journalism and intensify one of its worst crackdowns on the press in years. It is long past time for Egypt to end this campaign against press freedom and allow independent media to report freely.
CPJ condemns the referral of @MadaMasr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah to trial for operating a website without a license that Egyptian authorities have themselves refused to grant for years. Egypt is weaponizing its media law to punish independent journalism and intensify one of its worst crackdowns on the press in years, which began with the arrest of six Matsdaash journalists. It is long past time for Egypt to end this campaign and allow independent media to report freely.
Micha Tobia retweeted
CPJ condemns the referral of @MadaMasr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah to trial for operating a website without a license that Egyptian authorities have themselves refused to grant for years. Egypt is weaponizing its media law to punish independent journalism and intensify one of its worst crackdowns on the press in years, which began with the arrest of six Matsdaash journalists. It is long past time for Egypt to end this campaign and allow independent media to report freely.
Micha Tobia retweeted
بعد ساعات من الإفراج عنها أمس بكفالة 100 ألف جنيه، عادت نيابة أمن الدولة اليوم لتنقَضّ على لينا عطا الله، مديرة تحرير موقع «مدى مصر». فقد أُحيلَت عطا الله إلى محكمة جنح القاهرة الجديدة، بتهمة «تأسيس وإدارة موقع إلكتروني بدون ترخيص»، مع تحديد موعد جلسة المحاكمة الأولى يوم الثلاثاء المقبل، 27 تشرين الأول.
تجدر الإشارة إلى أنّ السلطات المصرية نفسها هي مَن تُعرقل طلب الموقع للحصول على ترخيص، منذ حزيران 2023. وتُعدّ هذه الخطوة بمثابة تصعيد خطير بوجه الصحافة المستقلّة، إذ تأتي في ظلّ حملةٍ موازية على موقع «متصدّقش»، حيث لا يزال فريق تحريره كاملاً، المكوّن من ستّة صحافيين، قيد التوقيف والاعتقال.
Micha Tobia retweeted
Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah was referred to trial on Thursday on charges of establishing and managing a website without a license. Sessions will begin on October 27, according to lawyer Hassan al-Azhari, Mada Masr’s legal counsel, who described the “haste” in the trial referral, which came just hours after the interrogation closed, and its scheduling for the coming week as “unjustified urgency” given the absence of circumstances in the case that require rapid resolution. storage.googleapis.com/madam…
Micha Tobia retweeted
قررت نيابة أمن الدولة العليا، اليوم، إحالة رئيسة تحرير «مدى مصر»، لينا عطالله، إلى محكمة جنح القاهرة الجديدة، بتهمة تأسيس وإدارة موقع إلكتروني بدون ترخيص، فيما حددت المحكمة الثلاثاء المقبل، 27 أكتوبر، موعدًا لأولى جلسات محاكمتها، بحسب محامي المؤسسة، حسن الأزهري. الأزهري اعتبر أن الإحالة بعد ساعات من انتهاء التحقيق، وتحديد جلسة عاجلة خلال أقل من أسبوع، يمثل «تعجل غير مبرر» في ظل عدم وجود ما يستدعي سرعة نظر القضية. storage.googleapis.com/madam…
Micha Tobia retweeted
🟠The Supreme State Security Prosecution referred Mada Masr editor-in-chief Lina Attalah today to trial on charges of establishing, managing and operating a website without a license. Her trial is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, October 27.
🟠The case, registered as Case No. 11743/2026, Fifth Settlement Misdemeanors, and No. 9072/2026, Supreme State Security, will be heard at the New Cairo Court in the Fifth Settlement. The prosecution accused Attalah of violating Law No. 180/2018 regulating the press, media and the Supreme Council for Media Regulation.
🟠Attalah received the referral order less than 24 hours after her release on LE100,000 bail, following more than six hours of questioning by the Supreme State Security Prosecution. During the interrogation, prosecutors accused her of running an unlicensed website and publishing false news domestically and abroad.
🟠According to Mada Masr, the questioning concerned its reporting on a wave of prison protests following the postponement of the new Criminal Procedure Code’s implementation. Prosecutors also asked about the outlet’s work and its efforts to obtain a license.
Find out all the details via the following link:
tinyurl.com/4jerka2t
#مدى_مصر #لينا_عطالله @madamasr
Micha Tobia retweeted
After investigations that lasted for over six hours, Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah was ordered released by prosecutors on Wednesday evening on LE100,000 bail.
Attalah was questioned by the Supreme State Security Prosecution in Case 9072/2026 on charges of publishing false news inside and outside the country, with questions touching on a recently-published Mada Masr report concerning a wave of protest actions at a number of prisons across the country. She was also questioned about Mada Masr’s work since its foundation, as well as about the steps its management has taken to obtain a license, according to lawyer Mokhtar Mounir. storage.googleapis.com/madam…
Micha Tobia retweeted
قررت نيابة أمن الدولة العليا إخلاء سبيل رئيسة تحرير «مدى مصر»، لينا عطاالله، بكفالة قدرها 100 ألف جنيه، على ذمة التحقيق في القضية 9072 لسنة 2026 حصر أمن دولة عليا، بعدما وجهت إليها تهم: إدارة موقع من دون ترخيص، ونشر أخبار كاذبة في الداخل والخارج، في تحقيق استمر لأكثر من ست ساعات، تطرقت الأسئلة خلاله إلى تقرير نشره «مدى مصر» مؤخرًا، حول موجة احتجاجات في السجون بعد تأجيل قانون «الإجراءات الجنائية».
بخلاف التقرير، تضمنت أسئلة النيابة استفسارات حول طبيعة عمل «مدى مصر» منذ تأسيسه، وكذلك الإجراءات التي سعت عبرها إدارته للحصول على ترخيص، حسبما قال المحامي مختار منير.
القضية هي السادسة بحق «مدى مصر» وصحفييه ورئيسة تحريره خلال السنوات الست الأخيرة، فيما ترفع الكفالة المقررة فيها إجمالي الكفالات المالية التي قررتها النيابة بحق صحفيي المؤسسة إلى 177 ألف جنيه.
لقراءة التفاصيل،bit.ly/4BpNtfo
