Ikshef
LONDON – 22/04/2016
Arab Media Freedom Monitor “Ikshef” rejects and condemns raids and detentions against six of Egyptian journalists ahead of protests called for by political and revolutionary forces on the 25th of April against Egyptian government’s decision of handing the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Ikshef stresses that this government approach to going after journalists to prevent dissenting voices from reaching out to public opinion, and controling the flow of information through the media is an outdated approach that is capable of putting Egypt at the top of anti-press freedom countries.
Ikshef re-rejects also turning the Egyptian media to one-voiced media by closing channels and newspapers that carry the opposition views to the current regime. Those media outlets are still closed since July 3, 2013 until now, Moreover, through the imprisonment of dozens of journalists who embrace points of view that differ from the regime’s, and whose number in prisons is currently 87 journalists.
Ikshef calls on supporters of freedom everywhere to do everything in their power to support freedom of press in Egypt, and to encounter the government attack against it, and to move to stop arresting of journalists and reopening closed channels and newspapers.
