Lina Attalah, wearing a red scarf, looks to the side during a panel discussion. She has very short dark hair.
Lina Attalah, the editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, pictured in 2017. Photograph: Roger Anis/AP
Lina Attalah, the editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, pictured in 2017. Photograph: Roger Anis/AP
Egypt fines prominent editor Lina Attalah and shuts independent news outlet Mada Masr

Warnings of escalating clampdown on press freedom come after Cairo court convicts Attalah of managing an unlicensed website

Lina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Masr, has been released from detention by Egypt’s authorities and had her website ordered to be shut down by a court amid an intensifying crackdown on independent media in the country.