{"id":235999,"date":"2026-06-11T17:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-cpj-partners-urge-eu-to-push-egypt-on-rights-and-press-freedom-reforms\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T17:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:04:05","slug":"egypt-cpj-partners-urge-eu-to-push-egypt-on-rights-and-press-freedom-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-cpj-partners-urge-eu-to-push-egypt-on-rights-and-press-freedom-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: CPJ, Partners Urge EU to Push Egypt On Rights and Press Freedom Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 14 other press freedom and human rights organizations on Monday, expressing concern over Egypt&#8217;s failure to show meaningful progress on human rights, democracy, or the rule of law, despite the European Union presenting such progress as a key condition of the \u20ac5 billion (US$5.75 billion) macro-financial assistance (MFA) package provided to the North African country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"99\">Published ahead of the EU-Egypt Association Council meeting on June 15, the statement&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606090038.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 14 other press freedom and human rights organizations on Monday, expressing concern over Egypt&#8217;s failure to show meaningful progress on human rights, democracy, or the rule of law, despite the European Union presenting such progress as a key condition of the \u20ac5 billion (US$5.75 billion) macro-financial assistance (MFA) package [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":236000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,14408,4697,415,7636,257,5189,6010,6354,7580,5100,254,10525],"class_list":["post-235999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cpj","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-freedom","tag-news","tag-partners","tag-press","tag-push","tag-reforms","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urge"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}