press freedom

An Australian journalist under investigation by the Egyptian authorities says he is getting little support from his country's foreign minister.…

Salma El-Wardany, an Egyptian journalist who was arrested in Khartoum last week while covering anti-government protests, will be deported on…

An Egyptian journalist who was arrested in Khartoum on Thursday while covering anti-government protests has been released, but has been…

Workers at the Iranian Arabic-language satellite channel Alalam have started a protest outside the Journalists Syndicate in Downtown Cairo, objecting…

Parliament’s Culture, Information and Tourism Committee on Sunday discussed the squandering of public funds by state-owned newspapers, whose debts have…

Security forces raided the office of the Iranian Alalam News outlet in Cairo Sunday and confiscated all of its equipment,…

Following the assault and detention of several journalists covering clashes in Abbasseya on Friday, the Journalists Syndicate board announced on…

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), in collaboration with Egypt Independent, organized a call to gather posters,…

As decades-old authoritarian regimes crumbled or eased their grip in countries as widespread as Myanmar, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, freedom…

Press freedom in Egypt has suffered under military rule, with the country dropping 39 spots on the annual Press Freedom…