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One of the most prominent Egyptian journalists faced a sham trial today. Authorities are trying to shut down - Mada Masr, one of Egypt’s most reputable independent news outlet. This month, they’ve already arrested an entire newsroom of another independent fact-checking outlet
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the conviction of Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of the independent Egyptian news outlet @MadaMasr, on charges of running an unlicensed website, and calls on Egyptian authorities to reverse the ruling, release the journalist immediately, and end their escalating campaign against independent journalism. Read CPJ's statement ⤵️ cpj.org/2026/10/cpj-outraged…
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Zeba Warsi retweeted
These #JantarMantar vibes at #jamiamilliaislamia and these continuous announcements in the background. Three more students have joined Ebin and Rehan today in the hunger strike. It is Ebin's 16th day and Rehan's 13th day of hunger strike. #JamiaMilliaIslamia
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Zeba Warsi retweeted
This is the darkest month I have ever seen for press freedom in Egypt. If Egypt’s democratic allies do not condemn this brutal attack on Mada Masr and Lina Attalah now, when will they? It is time to turn their values into action. It’s now or never.
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Israeli forces have detained dozens of Syrians from the country’s south, some of them teenage boys taken from farms and family homes. Their families still don’t know where they are being held or why, reports @subhash_anagha for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/reportage/th…
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Months after BJP VIce President said and retracted comments about India stopping oil imports under US Pressure, RS MP and former Foreign Secy and Amb to US says govt gave up Iranian and Venezuelan oil because US told it to. #FactsAreFacts
A US official asked India to slow down on Russian oil when I was Foreign Secretary. I told him the US had asked us to stop buying Iranian oil. We did. Then we were told to stop Venezuelan oil though we invested $6 billion there. Now its Russian oil? - says MP Harsh Shringla
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A Delhi police officer asking to drag a Muslim woman calling her an anti national in full view of the cameras. This is a complete radicalisation of the police force in the heart of the nation’s capital !
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In a sham proceeding, a Cairo court has fined Mada Masr chief editor @Linaattalah 3 million EGP on charges of operating a website without a license & ordered the closure of Mada Masr, one of Egypt’s last remaining independent media outlets. Lina is detained until the fine is paid
قررت الدائرة التاسعة بمحكمة جنح القاهرة الجديدة، برئاسة المستشار محمد مبارك، معاقبة رئيسة تحرير «مدى مصر»، لينا عطالله، بغرامة قدرها ثلاثة ملايين جنيه، في اتهامها بإدارة موقع بدون ترخيص، وغلق «مدى مصر»، وهو الحكم الذي أعقبه احتجاز عطاالله على يد قوات الأمن. المدير التنفيذي للمبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية، حسام بهجت، الذي حضر الجلسة، أوضح لـ«مدى مصر» أنه بعد رفع الجلسة إثر تمسك الدفاع بطلبه الحصول على وقت كافٍ للاطلاع على أوراق القضية، أمر القاضي بإخلاء القاعة بالكامل باستثناء «المتهمة» وفريق الدفاع الحاضر عنها، ما تبعه امتلاء القاعة بضباط وحرس بزي مدني، وحضور ضابط «الأمن الوطني». بعدها، خرج رئيس المحكمة وممثل نيابة أمن الدولة، وأعلن رئيس المحكمة أنها قررت التمسك برفض جميع الدفوع الإجرائية المقدمة من الدفاع، بما في ذلك ضم أي مستندات أو سماع أي شهود، قبل أن يطلب من فريق الدفاع تقديم مرافعته، والذي تمسك بعدم الترافع في ظل عدم الاستجابة للطلبات المقدمة، ليطلب القاضي فجأة إدخال أحد المحامين غير المعلومين لأي من أفراد فريق الدفاع، «وفي تصرف مذهل لجميع الحاضرين» أعلن القاضي أن المحكمة قررت انتداب محامي للدفاع عن المتهمة. عند تلك النقطة تعالت صيحات جميع أعضاء فريق الدفاع رفضًا لحضور محامي منتدب في ضوء حضور المحامين الأصليين الثمانية، فيما تحدث لينا عطالله نفسها، وأعلنت رفضها حضور هذا المحامي عنها، وهو ما رفض رئيس المحكمة تسجيله في محضر الجلسة. «وفي تصرف أكثر إثارة للصدمة»، شرع رئيس المحكمة بنفسه في تسجيل طلبات المحامي المنتدب في محضر الجلسة، دون حتى أن ينطق المحامي بكلمة من الأصل، قبل أن يبدأ القاضي في تلاوة حكم الإدانة، وسط صراخ وصيحات اعتراض فريق الدفاع، مقررًا إدانة لينا عطاالله ومعاقبتها بالعقوبة الأقصى، وهي الغرامة بمبلغ ثلاثة ملايين جنيه وغلق موقع «مدى مصر» ومصادرة المُعدات والأجهزة. وبعدها فوجئ الحاضرون بأفراد الأمن يحيطون بلينا عطاالله، ويحملونها من على الأرض إلى خارج القاعة، حيث لا تزال إلى الآن محتجزة.
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Senior officials from Mecca Defense Alliance member states, including Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman, meet with senior Iranian officials, including Iran’s security chief Mohsen Rezaei, for talks in Tehran.
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Do read this achingly beautiful essay, a memoir of coming of age as a Muslim in a country that lost its way I teared up often while reading of the daily humiliations that are now so routine I hope one day we are able to rebuild an India that Asad deserves thequint.com/news/politics/j…
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Pro- democracy protests continue in New Delhi despite a government crackdown:
Detentions have begun in central Delhi. Some managed to escape from this police bus, says @_sabahgurmat
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Tens of thousands have taken to the streets in New Delhi in recent weeks as India's youth-led "cockroach" movement have launched another wave of demonstrations — this time over a purge of voter rolls. A sweeping and controversial revision of the electoral rolls deleted 130 million of India’s more than 900 million eligible voters. The Election Commission of India says the deleted are dead, duplicates, people who had moved, or people it couldn’t trace. But protesters say the deletions disproportionately affected minorities, particularly Muslims, and helped Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party make gains in recent state elections. The commission and Modi’s political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, both deny any bias. The government answered the latest protests with a lockdown, shutting down internet around protest sites, cancelling trains to New Delhi and detaining thousands of protesters including young students, opposition leaders, lawyers and journalists. The protest movement is called the Cockroach Janta Party, whose name is a play on an insult from the country's chief justice, who likened unemployed young people to cockroaches. They first took to the streets this summer over leaked exam papers and education reforms. Eventually, the education minister resigned. Now, they are demanding the resignation of the chief election commissioner. @Zebaism has the latest from New Delhi.
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#India Colleagues and I have repeatedly alerted the Indian authorities to undue restrictions on peaceful assembly, excessive use of force, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, and the targeting of student activists. 👇🏽
#India: UN experts alarmed by heavy-handed police response to peaceful youth-led demonstrations. “Despite the non-violent nature of the assemblies, law enforcement has deployed force against unarmed students” ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
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Zeba Warsi retweeted
Protests don't define the state of a democracy as much as the response of the government to the protests does.
Important: Here’s something that a LOT of people don’t know about what’s actually going on with Delhi Police. CJP’s Saurav Das & Ashutosh Ranka have been sent to 2 more days of judicial custody in Tihar Jail. By a judicial court? NO. They have been kept in Tihar Jail for the last 6 days on the order of a Special Executive Magistrate (SEM). Who is an SEM? He is an ACP-rank (junior) police officer of Delhi Police appointed by the state govt. Therefore, Delhi Police arrested Saurav & Ashutosh & now a Delhi Police ACP (acting as SEM) is keeping them in jail. There’s no FIR against them. There’s also no judicial order. Delhi Police are the accusers & well as the judge when it comes to keeping them in jail. That’s how messed up it is.
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Indian youth leader Neha Bora detained by Delhi police today at the Indian “tricolour” protest march. Cockroach movement leaders also detailed by cops. India’s youth led pro-democracy protests continue despite a forceful government crackdown.
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Critics fear the aim of the Modi government in removing 130 million from voter rolls is not to purge illegal immigrants but to disenfranchise tens of millions of Muslims, other minorities, and poor & lower caste communities, who are largely not BJP voters. trib.al/44aMIZk
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“India is in rebellion. At stake is the very future of the country’s democracy and the potential of its renewal.” Read @pbmehta on what today’s mass protests could mean for the future of Indian democracy: foreignaffairs.com/india/ind…
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“Mother of democracy” where the right to peaceful protest is being unabashedly denied by his government
VIDEO | Delhi: "India is the mother of democracy," says Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum. (Source: PM Modi's YT) (Full video available on PTI Videos - ptivideos.com)
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India’s Prime Minister’s post presents a completely different mood than what is unfolding on the streets in the form of massive pro-democracy protests against his government. Read the replies:
Across Chennai, the welcome has been euphoric!
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