A prominent Egyptian independent news organization, Mada Masr, faces closure and its editor-in-chief, Lina Attalah, has been fined and detained following a court ruling. The New Cairo Misdemeanours Court convicted Attalah of managing an unlicensed website and imposed the maximum penalty of 3 million Egyptian pounds (approximately $53,500 USD) in fines. Attalah, who denied the […]