Egypt’s Supreme Media Council has expressed its “deep dissatisfaction” with a Reuters report which details a new level of censorship over the news and entertainment industries.

The Supreme Media Council, headed by Makram Mohamed Ahmed, expressed in a statement on Saturday its deep dissatisfaction over a recent media report by Reuters on Egyptian TV series, vowing to take legal measures.

Egyptian authorities are preventing the circulation of any unofficial news on the appointment of new governors and the upcoming Cabinet overhaul in Egypt, a well-informed security source revealed to Al-Monitor.

After police raided the offices of the Mada Masr news website last week, editor in chief Lina Attalah has expressed her determination to persevere in the pursuit of critical journalism in Egypt. “We will continue our independent coverage of what is happening in Egypt,” she told Al-Monitor. Attalah said she has been encouraged by international statements …

Egypt President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has reappointed his son’s father-in-law and old friend, Lieutenant General Mahmoud Hijazi, to work on a number of political and strategic files including restructuring the state-owned media.

For decades, Egypt has been a beacon of intellect and culture. Egypt’s newspapers, music, movies, television shows and literature mirrored Egypt’s cultural, economic and political stronghold in the Middle East and North Africa.

Leaked documents published by Arabi21 reveal that Egypt’s State Information Service, which regulates the country’s media, is being run and controlled by the military.

The editor of one of Egypt’s most read newspapers has published a shocking article in which he described the Muslim Brotherhood, Jewish people, and Shia Muslims as the “trinity of evil in the world”.

Egypt’s interior ministry has organised a tour of its most infamous prison, just days after a panel of United Nations experts warned that thousands of prisoners were at risk of dying in Egyptian jails.

Egypt is “fully prepared” to face all the accusations it expects will be brought against it at the Universal Periodic Review session scheduled to be held at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday, according to a government official in Cairo.