Egypt Must Account for Missing Journalist Haidar Qandil

Washington, D.C. — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Egyptian authorities to immediately reveal the whereabouts of prominent journalist Haidar Qandil, who disappeared Monday after leaving his office, according to his family and several media outlets.

Freelance Egyptian journalist Iman Adel said in a Facebook post that she had been in contact with Qandil throughout the day as he documented the arrests of Egyptian Shias ahead of Ashura — a key religious commemoration — including…