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Egypt's press freedom under Mursi spotlighted at trial

CPJ has documented a stream of attacks against the press under Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsi.  Islam Afifi, editor-in-chief of the independent daily Al-Dustour was charged with insulting the president.

Bloomberg reports on the story and quotes CPJ Deputy Director, Robert Mahoney, on this benchmark press freedom case under Morsi. 

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