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Egypt's media blackout on Sinai

The Egyptian government's crackdown on militants in Sinai has been subject to security restrictions on media coverage.
A funeral convoy carrying the bodies of four Islamist militants, drives through Sheikh Zuweid, in the north of the Sinai peninsula August 10, 2013. The four Islamist militants were killed by an air strike that their comrades said had been done by an Israeli drone but which state media said was the work of an Egyptian army helicopter. REUTERS/ Stringer (EGYPT - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTX12G57
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Ever since the beginning of the military operation that began in the Sinai Peninsula after the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, against what the army called "extremist elements," there has been a media blackout regarding the events going on in this vital part of Egypt and the crises that its citizens are suffering from.

According to Mustafa Senger, a political activist from the Sinai, one of the most important problems is that mobile phone and Internet networks have stopped working. He told Al-Monitor there has not been consistent mobile phone and Internet coverage since the beginning of the army crackdown in July 2013, and that since August, connections have been cut in the Sinai daily from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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