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Egyptian court postpones retrial of independent news site's editor
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An Egyptian court on Wednesday postponed until November 18 a retrial of the editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, a prominent independent news site, on charges of publishing false news and running an unlicensed website, the site said.
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Human rights groups see the Mada Masr case as a litmus test of whether independent journalism can survive in Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country.
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Mada Masr said Lina Attalah's defence submitted a request on Wednesday to change the judge, as he had ruled against her in a previous trial on October 27.
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The judge postponed the case for a week until the Court of Appeals decides on the change.
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In his ruling last month, the judge fined Attalah 3 million Egyptian pounds ($56,200) and ordered the closure of Mada Masr after a single hearing on a separate charge that the site had operated without a licence.
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Mada Masr, along with some other independent websites, says it has sought a licence under a 2018 media law that introduced the requirement but has received no formal decision.
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Attalah's lawyers said last month that the court had rejected their requests during the session to review the case file and to submit additional evidence and had instead appointed a lawyer for her against her objections.
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Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council later rejected suggestions that the trial was unfair.
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An appeal against the October 27 ruling is due to be heard on November 25.
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In the retrial case, Attalah was sentenced in absentia in 2024 to a year in prison.
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She only learned of that sentence on October 27, while she was being released after the ruling that shuttered her news site.
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Egyptian authorities have not responded to Reuters requests for comment on the Mada Masr case or wider issues of press freedom.
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They have repeatedly said the state is committed to freedom of expression but that media must operate within the law and respect national security.
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