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“The crackdown “can only mean that Egypt’s security agencies are moving from years of harassing independent media to wiping them out completely”, one expert told the Guardian.”

“In fact, as the Egyptian journalist Hossam el-Hamalawy confirmed to the Guardian this week, the actual text of the letter El-Sayed signed, as a medical student at Columbia University, “makes no reference to the Muslim Brotherhood” and simply “called on Morsi…”

“Lina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Masr, has been released from detention by Egypt’s authorities and had her website ordered to be shut down by a court amid an intensifying crackdown on independent…”

“The current crackdown "can only mean that Egypt's security agencies are moving from years of harassing independent media to wiping them out completely,"”

“The 2012 letter, signed by El-Sayed and more than 30 others, urged Mohamed Morsi, the then-newly crowned president of Egypt and a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, to “purge” the media and police, the Washington Free Beacon first reported last month.”

“WASHINGTON — Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed once signed a letter urging the then-newly crowned president of Egypt, a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, to “purge” the media and police.”

““We, leaders of the Egyptian community, support the revolutionary decisions taken by the president, and we call on him to purge the media and the police as quickly as possible,” read the letter.”

“…tivists fleeing repression have become caught up in a wider crackdown on immigration, as governments across Europe and the US toughen rules amid political pressure over high numbers of irregular migrants and asylum applications, as well as over security…”

“…ometimes worked in the past but became essentially impossible in the summer of 2025 after Immigration and Customs Enforcement had “established a single route through Egypt and begun coordinating deportations with the Egyptian (and likely Russian)…”