Supreme media regulatory council

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media legislation • 3 min read

Legal limbo: Media council again extends deadline for outlets to legalize status

For the time being, we remain in legal limbo.

3 hours ago

Information Ministry • 5 min read

‘A minister without a ministry’ — confusion over role of newly appointed information minister

During Sunday’s meeting, Heikal presented his vision of the Information Ministry’s purview

6 January 2020

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

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Opinion

Nora Younis

My crime is managing a media website

I went into the bathroom and messaged the lawyer who was on his way to me: “Am I getting arrested?”

4 July 2020

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

media legislation • 4 min read

Media law executive regulations finally go into effect 18 months after law passed

26 February 2020

media legislation • 4 min read

Media council and Journalists Syndicate point fingers at each other for long delay in media law executive regulations

16 January 2020

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

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