With presidential elections due next month, dissent has all but disappeared in Sisi's Egypt. Plus, Hungary's media.
Egypt's dissenting voices
There have been more arrests in Egypt's current election campaign than manifestos; candidates are dropping like flies.
For example, Abdul Moneim Aboul Fotouh decided not to run against President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, but was arrested anyway upon his return to Cairo after doing an interview in London. It's not just what he said, denouncing Egypt's crackdown on dissent, but where he said it - on Al Jazeera Mubasher, which is network non grata in Egypt.
Istanbul is also on Cairo's radar these days, because of the opposition channels that beam out of there and into Egypt, Mekameleen and Al Sharq. They are probably the reason travel restrictions have been placed on Egyptian journalists trying to go there.
When it comes to the media, the Sisi government has its bases covered; they don't have to worry about how they are being covered.
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