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Published date: 16 March 2021 09:49 UTC | Last update: 1 week 2 days ago Egyptian free speech advocates are expressing concern that the fate of detained media professionals is being used as a campaigning card ahead of the midterm elections of the Journalists Syndicate, the independent guild of the nation s newspaper writers. Some of the candidates are putting pressure on the government to release the journalists put in jail on fabricated and laughable charges, Amr Badr, the head of the Committee on Freedoms at the syndicate, told Middle East Eye.  Several journalists, held in pre-trial detention, were released earlier this month at an initiative by Diaa Rashwan, the outgoing head of the Journalists Syndicate, who is campaigning for a second two-year term at the saddle of the union.  

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