MadaMasr also said Daniel O’Connell, an American editor who had been working for the media outlet in #Cairo, was recently stopped at Cairo airport, deported and barred from re-entering the country. x.com/KristenMcTighe…

Lina Attallah, Mohamed Hamama and Rana Mamdouh released from Dokki police station. Source: Gamal Eid

Dear friends and readers, thank you for all your love and support. We are safe and sound, and ready to come back after we take a little time to clean up this mess. Remember: journalism is not a crime. Freedom for all.

It's been a week since Sarah took her life in Canada. Many memorials were held around the world. The homophobia that she stood against in Egypt is still rampant. But her life & death have changed the course of the debate & pushed it to the public sphere. edition.cnn.com/2020/06/17/mid…

“She was our matriarch.” Colleagues and friends remember Dalia Suleiman, who spent almost 20 years on Egypt’s art and culture scene until she passed away last Sunday at the age of 41. madamasr.com/en/2020/08/23/…

What an honour for TIME to be graced by ⁦Lina Attalah #savesheikhjarrah⁩’s presence. “When you live like this, each day requires a temperature check and a mental calculation. Which story do you tackle? How far can you go?” #OurWomenOnTheGround time.com/collection/100…

Karim Ennarah - a ferociously smart researcher and advocate for the basic rights and freedoms of his fellow citizens - is the kind of person #Egypt should be building its future around. Instead, it currently holds him and so many others behind bars. x.com/Jeky_Kelly/sta…

The crackdown on Egyptian human rights group المبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية continues. Gasser Abdel-Razek, the executive director, has been arrested from his home now in Maadi, Cairo. This is the third arrest this week.

Your outcry paid off Gasser is no longer hungry and cold please don’t stop 🙏

Further escalating the assault, our assets and bank account have been frozen. A terrorism court will consider the matter tomorrow. Yes a terrorism court.

I can confirm my friends and @eipr colleagues Gasser, Basheer and Karim have been released and are home which I guess means we (and you) managed to #FreeEIPRstaff 💚

This is welcome news. But the most important things to remember at this moment are that thousands of other political prisoners remain and the effort to crush what remains of civil society is ongoing.

Me again. Tomorrow morning we’re back in court for one last @eipr staffer in jail. Our star gender specialist Patrick has been in pretrial detention for 10 months on same bogus terrorism charges. If you raise your voice for him today we might take a few days off

A leading Palestinian techno DJ, Sama Abd al-Hadi, was arrested for playing at a concert in Jericho licensed by the Palestinian Authority's own tourism ministry. change.org/p/palestinian-…

This from Jack Shenker captures a lot of the sentiment surrounding the anniversary and why it still resonates today vice.com/en/article/n7v…

Remembrance can be tricky, by Lina Attalah #savesheikhjarrah mada29.appspot.com/www.madamasr.c…

All of these triggering images and disturbing videos you have been viewing from Gaza, are ours. All of these beautiful kind faces who have been pulling out from under the rubble, are ours. We spend the day not believing we’re still alive and in the night we wait for our death.

تلقيت اليوم استدعاء للمثول للتحقيق لأول مرة غداً الخميس أمام قاضي التحقيق في القضية ١٧٣ المفتوحة منذ ٢٠١١ ضد منظمات حقوق الإنسان...بعد ١٠ سنين من إدراج اسمي في القضية و ٥ سنين من منعي من السفر ومن التصرف في أموالي على ذمة التحقيق فيها بدون استدعائي أو سماع أقوالي

We've lost a good one. Habibi ya Aalam.