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Media Experts: Attack on Freedom and Justice Newspaper Serious Assault on Freedoms

Egyptian media professionals and experts condemn a violent attack on the Freedom and Justice newspaper head-office as an attempt to silence the paper, and an attack on freedom of the

Egypt Information Minister to Political Parties: No-One Will Be Excluded; Freedoms Guaranteed for All

Egypt’s new Information Minister meets with the heads of the country’s political parties; assures them that State-owned media outlets will not alienate any political players, and that freedom of speech

Shehabeddin: Critics of Supreme Council of Press Not Used to Intellectual Diversity and Multiplicity

While Egypt's new press council appointments include journalists, editors-in-chief, legal experts, politicians and academics – of varying intellectual and political orientations, some critics can still find fault in new formation.

President Morsi Issues Decree Scrapping Preventive Detention in Cases of Publishing Offenses

Egypt’s newly-inaugurated president Mohamed Morsi uses his first decree with the force of law to annul preventive detention for journalists in crimes related to publishing, thus securing the release of

Freedom and Justice Party Strongly Condemns Attacks Targeting Journalists and Media Figures

Muslim Brotherhood journalists and media professionals affirm that freedom of the press must not be violated or suppressed in any manner or form.

Successful First Step Towards New Relationship Between Islamists and Mass Media

Cairo, Sunday, July 29 – Press Statement: Leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, Salafi movement, the Jam’aa Islamiya (the Islamic Group) and the Sufi Orders agree with the Political Islam Editors

International Press Organization Praises President Morsi Respect of The Press

Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign hails Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s successful efforts to secure the release of an Egyptian journalist from a Sudanese prison.

Journalists for Reform: Assault on Foreign Journalist in Egypt is Unrepresentative

Egyptian young journalists condemn mob-attack on UK Daily Mail’s Natasha Smith, in Egypt; and assert that the Egyptian Journalists' union is quite capable of safeguarding her rights.

Muslim Brotherhood Re-Affirms Joining Revolution Squares Protests

Despite deliberately misleading media reports to the contrary, Egypt’s Brotherhood confirms it is positively taking part in today’s million-man marches and other protest events in liberty squares across the country.

Journalists Go On Strike, Misr 25 Channel Staff Starts Sit-in

As Egyptian Military Police violates all red lines, assaulting media professionals performing their duty, reporting news from clash scenes near the Ministry of Defense building, Abbassiya, in Cairo, the national