Ahead of the country's May election, we examine the failed promise of the Arab Spring and the impact on journalism.
Plotting a map of the state of the news media in Egypt reveals a grim landscape. This past week, Egypt’s Field Marshall Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi made a live TV announcement that he was leaving his army post to run in the presidential elections. On that same day - March 26th - Al Masri, the state-run TV channel, aired a documentary about another candidate.
Privately owned pro-Sisi news outlets deemed that editorial decision to be scandalous. Meanwhile, there are the journalists who have been thrown in jail - including four from this network - on terrorism charges. They maintain that all they were doing is reporting on the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned organisation that was in power less than a year ago.
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