Egypt releases, on bail, editor-in-chief of prominent independent news outlet
Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, has been released on bail following her arrest Sunday.
Egyptian security forces have released on bail the editor-in-chief of one of the country’s last major independent news outlets, hours after her arrest in Cairo on Sunday.
Lina Attalah was conducting an interview with the mother of jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah when she was arrested outside the maximum security Tora prison in the capital city. Attalah’s news outlet, Mada Masr, reports that security officers confiscated her phone and denied her access to a lawyer.
After questioning from the prosecutor's office, she was released from Maadi prison Sunday evening on bail of 2,000 Egyptian pounds ($127).
Mada Masr, which Attalah co-founded in 2013, is one of the last remaining examples of the free press in Egypt. Authorities blocked access to the site in 2017, the same year Attalah was named a “new generation leader” by Time magazine.
