A Misdemeanours Emergency State Security Court in Egypt today sentenced researcher and master’s student Ahmed Samir Santawy to four years in prison after convicting him of publishing “false news”, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Research and Advocacy Director, Philip Luther said:

The Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday sentenced TikTok and Likee content creator Haneen Hossam to 10 years in prison and content creator Mowada al-Adham and three other employees of Likee and parent tech company Bigo Technology, to six years in prison on human trafficking charges. The court also fined the …

Saudi acting Media Minister Majid Bin Abdullah Al-Qasabi announced the formation of a working group to develop a unified media vision with Egypt, stressing that there is an urgent need to unify the two countries’ media horizons.

Rights groups have called on Egypt to release a retired journalist who was detained last month on “terrorism” charges.

Egypt is one of ten countries where Apple Inc will not be offering its new private relay service, a feature which will prevent service providers and advertisers from being able to access a user’s web browser behaviour.

Renad Emad, a popular Egyptian TikTok influencer, was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday by a Cairo economic court.

The Egyptian authorities arrested retired journalist Tawfiq Ghanem two weeks ago, according to a statement by his family, while another journalist was transferred to a hospital under deterioration of his health condition, reports Anadolu Agency.

One of the first doctors delegated to treat Palestinians injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza last month was brought before the State Security Prosecution on Wednesday, two weeks after he was forcibly disappeared.

Egyptian journalists have criticised the conditions of their imprisonment without trial or investigation in political cases during the era of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi.

“Violence, beatings, extortion and rape” are the main plots of most of the drama works in the month of Ramadan, according to the governmental National Council for Women.