{"id":239383,"date":"2026-07-24T06:43:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-cpj-partners-demand-release-of-egyptian-cartoonist-ashraf-omar-on-arrest-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:43:51","slug":"egypt-cpj-partners-demand-release-of-egyptian-cartoonist-ashraf-omar-on-arrest-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-cpj-partners-demand-release-of-egyptian-cartoonist-ashraf-omar-on-arrest-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: CPJ, Partners Demand Release of Egyptian Cartoonist Ashraf Omar On Arrest Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Committee to Protect Journalists joined partner organizations on Wednesday to mark Ashraf Omar&#8217;s second arrest anniversary by calling for his immediate release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">In the letter, the signatories voice concern over the significant time that has passed since the Al-Manassa cartoonist was arrested in his home on July 22, 2024 and their refusal to accept Omar&#8217;s arbitrary detention, while awaiting a trial that &#8220;exploits anti-terrorism legislations for repressive purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">On November 15, 2025, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607230144.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 partner organizations on Wednesday to mark Ashraf Omar&#8217;s second arrest anniversary by calling for his immediate release. In the letter, the signatories voice concern over the significant time that has passed since the Al-Manassa cartoonist was arrested in his home on July 22, 2024 and their refusal to accept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,8220,6414,35602,27909,14408,7617,4697,415,6639,257,9384,5189,6011,254],"class_list":["post-239383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anniversary","tag-arrest","tag-ashraf","tag-cartoonist","tag-cpj","tag-demand","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptian","tag-news","tag-omar","tag-partners","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239383","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=239383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}