Article updated on 24 November, 11:30PM local time Hours after security forces raided the Cairo offices of Mada Masr, journalists and editors Lina Attalah, Mohamed Hammama, Randa Mamdouh and Shady Zalat were released from custody. Shady Zalat, an editor at independent Egypt-based media organization Mada Masr, was detained in the early hours of Saturday 23 November, a day before security forces raided Mada Masr’s offices. On Sunday 24 November, security forces raided Mada Masr’s offices, confiscating personal devices (mobile phones and laptops), preventing 16 Mada Masr staff and freelancers in the office. According to a statement published on Mada Masr’s website, two members of a France 24 crew who had arrived to film an interview with Attalah about Zalat’s detention were also questioned before they left with French embassy representatives. Mada Masr reports that a while later, Attalah, Hamama and Mamdouh were taken to Dokki Police station. The three were then placed in a police truck for further transportation, before the truck turned around and returned to Dokki Police station, where the three were released. Around the same time, Zalat informed colleagues he had also been released from detention. Shady’s…
