Egypt Arrests, Disappears Entire Newsroom Over ‘Fake News’ Allegations
3rd October 2026
Egyptian authorities have detained the entire newsroom of one of the country’s only independent media outlets in a move that rights groups have denounced as a “first” and an “alarming escalation” on free speech.
On September 28 and 29, security forces raided the homes of the six journalists – Mohamed Ashraf Abu Emeira, Abdallah Qadry, Islam Barakat, Omar Helal, Mohamed Mahmoud and Mohamed Adel – who constitute the entire team working for Matsada2sh (Arabic for “Don’t believe”). The arrests bring the number of journalists detained in Egypt to 24.
Of all the Muslim-majority states in the world, not one can be accurately characterized as a democracy. Coincidence? I think not.
Muslims are doing their damnedest to put the same totalitarian regimes in place in Western Europe and in the U.S. Time to wake up.