Egypt: Fact-Checking Site’s Entire Newsroom Jailed As Assault On Press Freedom Widens

Six journalists who make up the entire newsroom of the Egyptian fact-checking website Matsadash remain in detention, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Tuesday, warning of proliferating assaults on press freedom by the Government.

“We are witnessing widening assaults on press freedom by Egyptian authorities, including the targeting, persecution and harassment of independent journalists,” the human rights chief’s spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan told journalists in Geneva.

“These alarming…