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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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?”
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
News
media legislation
4 min read
Media law executive regulations finally go into effect 18 months after law passed
media legislation
4 min read
Media council and Journalists Syndicate point fingers at each other for long delay in media law executive regulations
human rights criticism
11 min read
UN rights review roundly criticizes Egypt over prison conditions, civil society violations, discrimination
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’
Journalists Syndicate
4 min read
Police storm home of Al-Mashhad newspaper editor-in-chief and arrest his son
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
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