Egyptian journalist Lina Attalah faces court, risks prison

Lina Attalah, head of independent Egyptian news site Mada Masr, appears in criminal court Wednesday in a retrial. She is charged with operating without a license and publishing false news. She was sentenced in absentia to one year in prison in 2024. The UN criticized Egypt for "escalating attacks on press freedom."

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