CAIRO, Nov. 9 (Aswat Masriya) – On Monday military prosecution detained investigative journalist Hossam Bahgat for four days pending investigation on charges of “publishing false news that harms national interests and disseminating information that disturbs public peace,” according to the Association for Freedom of Thoughts and Expression (AFTE). Bahgat was …

CAIRO, Nov. 10 (Aswat Masriya) - Investigative journalist Hossam Bahgat was released abruptly on Tuesday after an interrogation by the military prosecution, although lawyers were told on Monday that Bahgat would remain in detention for four days pending investigation. Heba Morayef, the executive director of The Egyptian Initiative for Personal …

Leah Caldwell looks at the symbolism of attacks on statues and posters of the Asad family during the recent protests in Syria – attacks which would have been unthinkable before the unrest began.

Cairo, Dec. 29 (Aswat Masriya) – On Tuesday Mohamed Fahmy, who was recently released from jail in Egypt after his involvement in the Al Jazeera case, sent an official request to Egypt’s foreign ministry asking that he be given back his Egyptian nationality. Fahmy renounced the Egyptian citizenship in February and kept …

Cairo, Jan 6 (Aswat Masriya) - Four journalists were referred to the Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday on charges of "defaming and publishing false information on the minister of justice Ahmed al-Zind." The defendants include the editor-in-chief of the Al Ahram Gate website, Hisham Younis, the editor-in-chief of Al Mesryoon …

CAIRO, Nov. 1 (Aswat Masriya) - Journalist Ahmed Naje who is on trial for publishing an article containing "obscene sexual content" told Aswat Masriya on Sunday that the decision does not surprise him given the permanent "hostility" that prosecutors display towards the press.  Naje and the editor-in-chief of weekly literary magazine Akhbar …

Cairo, Jan. 15 (Aswat Masriya) – A Cairo-based news website said that its managing editor was released Friday. Security forces raided the headquarters of privately owned Masr al-Arabia and arrested its managing editor Ahmed Abdel Gawad on Thursday. Police personnel from the Office of Artistic Production inspected some of the …

Cairo, Jan. 16 (Aswat Masriya) - Parliamentary sessions are to remain off-air for 15 days until representatives review the laws and presidential decrees made in the parliament’s absence. After this, live broadcast will resume normally, parliamentary president Ali Abdel Aal said. Egypt has been without a legislature since the Islamist …

CAIRO, Nov. 15 (Aswat Masriya) - Egypt's administrative court Sunday set a January 17 verdict date for a law suit demanding that activist Wael Ghonim be stripped of his Egyptian nationality on accusations of being an agent. Ghonim found himself in the limelight in February 2011 after it emerged that he was …

CAIRO, Jan 19 (Aswat Masriya) – On Tuesday, a Cairo misdemeanor appeals court reversed a six-month prison sentence previously handed down to an Egyptian journalist who had reported “a gay bathhouse orgy” to the police in late 2014. The court acquitted journalist Mona Iraqi of charges of defamation and “publishing …