Egyptian police raided the Cairo office of independent news website Mada Masr on Sunday and briefly detained three journalists, including the editor-in-chief, as authorities intensify a crackdown on press freedoms.
Mada said on Twitter that editor-in-chief Lina Attalah and journalists Mohamed Hamama and Rana Mamdouh were"taken to the prosecution," one day after another website editor, Shady Zalat, was arrested. The four were released a few hours later.
"They confiscated staff members' laptops and phones and refused to answer questions about their identity. They collected staff members' IDs and their personal information and held them in the newsroom," Mada said in a statement. Mada, founded in 2013, became known for its investigative reports on topics that often cover Egyptian security bodies. It has Arabic and English versions.
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