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Journalists Syndicate • 6 min read

Security interventions place 3 pro-govt figures on Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate council

Ashraf Hakim | The security apparatuses sent a list of six nominees by WhatsApp to newsrooms

2 April 2019

media legislation • 10 min read

Confusion, contradictions and uncertainty: Implementation of new media law leaves news websites in the dark

Rana Mamdouh | By requiring websites to register before regulations were issued, the SMRC has sparked confusion

12 November 2018

media legislation • 7 min read

Critics blast amendments to Journalists Syndicate law drafted behind closed doors

Rana Mamdouh | Proposed amendments to the law governing Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate have come under fire

1 November 2018

freedom of the press • 29 min read

Egypt’s new media laws: Rearranging legislative building blocks to maximize control

Rana Mamdouh | Egypt's new press laws grant sweeping powers to regulators and further restrict journalistic work

17 July 2018

freedom of the press • 10 min read

State Council, Journalists Syndicate condemn ‘unconstitutional’ media bill

Mostafa Mohie and Rania al-Abd | The draft law is deemed to "violate" constitutionally guaranteed press freedoms

12 July 2018

Children’s Cancer Hospital 57375 • 13 min read

Prosecutor general admonishes media council for issuing gag order, summons SMRC head for investigation

Omar Said | The public prosecutor asserted that the SMRC does not have the authority to issue gag orders

7 July 2018

Communications and Information Technology Committee • 10 min read

Legislative process and content of new media law criticized by journalists and MPs

Omar Said and Rania al-Abd | The bill to regulating the practice of journalism was preliminarily approved on Sunday

13 June 2018

media legislation • 15 min read

Regulators without regulations

Rana Mamdouh | Despite the formation of three new media regulatory bodies, their roles remain legally unregulated

3 May 2018

media legislation • 7 min read

Who are ‘the forces of evil’ controlling Egypt’s media?

Rana Mamdouh | A spat with the BBC or the start of broader crackdown: Mada speaks to media regulators and lawyers

1 March 2018

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Opinion

Becoming ‘legal’: On Mada Masr’s decision to apply for a license under the new media law

We made this choice while thinking about what it means to be radical inside out

25 November 2018

News

human rights criticism • 11 min read

UN rights review roundly criticizes Egypt over prison conditions, civil society violations, discrimination

18 November 2019

freedom of the press • 5 min read

Supreme Media Regulatory Council secretary: ‘We’ve yet to reach decision on website licensing, do not know when executive bylaws will be issued’

22 October 2019

Journalists Syndicate • 4 min read

Police storm home of Al-Mashhad newspaper editor-in-chief and arrest his son

11 September 2019

freedom of the press • 8 min read

Editor in chief: Al-Mashhad handed 1st penalties under new bylaws for report on police racketeering for amendment referendum

23 March 2019

censorship • 6 min read

Journalists Syndicate board members walk out of meeting in protest over proposed SMRC bylaws

10 January 2019

freedom of the press • 4 min read

SMRC postpones adoption of controversial media bylaws for one week to hear syndicate comments

3 January 2019

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