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Egypt restricts access to 57 news website: report
Egypt

Egypt restricts access to 57 news website: report

Independent news websites Al-Badil, Al-Bedaiah, and Medium, are now unreachable to internet users in Egypt, raising the total number of…
Lebanon bans the new Wonder Woman movie
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Lebanon bans the new Wonder Woman movie

Lebanese authorities banned the new “Wonder Woman” movie Wednesday hours before it was due to premiere in the capital and…
TV channels and censor at odds over content rating
Culture

TV channels and censor at odds over content rating

The Ramadan TV season has only just begun, yet the drama has already started with several conflicts between Egypt’s Censorship…
Sisi ratifies new law allowing state full control over NGO work in Egypt
Egypt

Sisi ratifies new law allowing state full control over NGO work in Egypt

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi ratified on Monday a new law that is set to regulate the work of non-governmental organizations…
Lebanese ministry calls for ban of Wonder Woman movie
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Lebanese ministry calls for ban of Wonder Woman movie

Lebanon’s ministry of economy says it has asked the country’s security agency to ban the 2017 Wonder Woman movie because…
Staff of blocked news outlets threaten to protest at Press Syndicate
Egypt

Staff of blocked news outlets threaten to protest at Press Syndicate

A number of staff from local media outlets whose websites were blocked in Egypt held a meeting at Al-Bedaiah newspaper headquarters Tuesday to…
Press Syndicate chairman to defend blocked news sites unless evidence of ‘harming national security’
Egypt

Press Syndicate chairman to defend blocked news sites unless evidence of ‘harming national security’

Chairman of the Press Syndicate Abdel Mohsen Salama denied on Thursday that the authorities had notified him of the decision…
Egypt blocks 21 news sites including Qatari channel Al-Jazeera for supporting terrorism
Egypt

Egypt blocks 21 news sites including Qatari channel Al-Jazeera for supporting terrorism

Several Qatar-affiliated news outlets and other local news websites were blocked in Egypt on Wednesday in the wake of allegedly false footage…
22 TV series gain approval by censor, others slammed for indecent content
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22 TV series gain approval by censor, others slammed for indecent content

Twenty-two drama series have been approved by the Censorship of Artistic Works to be screened on TV in the holy…
Council of Europe warns of rising media self-censorship
World

Council of Europe warns of rising media self-censorship

Journalists are increasingly resorting to self-censorship to avoid falling foul of the authorities in the face of physical and psychological…
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