Are Egypt's jailed journalists becoming pawns in their union's election game?
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.Â...
Source: middleeasteye.net