Daily News Egypt (DNE), one of Egypt’s leading English-language daily newspapers and online websites, has been blocked in Egypt. Al Borsa News, which shares the same owner as DNE and covers business news, also appears to have been blocked. The two websites have become inaccessible for Internet users in Egypt, but remain online for internet users in other countries. Egyptian Streets first reported on the block of DNE on Friday 26 May. However, it was shortly discovered that Daily News Egypt had started using a different website, TheDailyNewsEgypt.com, which until Sunday 28 May had not been blocked (but appears to have been at the time of publishing). The move to use TheDailyNewsEgypt.com coincided with the alleged ‘technical issues’ that DailyNewsEgypt.com is facing. Until 26 May, TheDailyNewsEgypt.com had never been publicly used by DNE to promote its articles. In fact, a search on Alexa two days ago shows that the new website has been so underused that there are no visitor statistics. Egyptian Streets contacted the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE), a leading non-governmental organization in Egypt, with this information prior to the blocking of DNE’s new domain name TheDailyNewsEgypt.com. AFTE confirmed that DNE…
