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Lina Attalah, the head of Egypt’s independent outlet Mada Masr, is due to appear in a criminal court on Wednesday, 11 November, facing possible prison time in a retrial that has drawn international attention. She is being retried over a one-year prison sentence handed down in absentia (while Attalah was not present in court) in 2024, for operating a news website without a licence and “publishing false news.” She learned of the sentence last month, upon her release from…
