Khaled el-Balshy Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Egyptian security forces detain brother of Darb editor Khaled el-Balshy

October 13, 2020 5:23 PM EDT

New York, October 13, 2020 – Egyptian authorities must immediately release Kamal el-Balshy and stop harassing the families of journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On September 20, state security forces arrested Kamal el-Balshy, who works at an international travel agency, while he was returning home from the gym in downtown Cairo, according…

Egyptian editor, press freedom advocate faces arrest

April 5, 2016 2:02 PM EDT

New York, April 5, 2016 – Egyptian prosecutors should immediately drop criminal charges against editor and press freedom advocate Khaled El-Balshy, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Egypt arrests three journalists in five days, whereabouts of two unknown

October 26, 2015 2:33 PM EDT

New York, October 26, 2015–At least three journalists have been arrested in the past five days in Egypt, and the whereabouts of two of them are unknown, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Egyptian authorities to disclose the reasons for the journalists’ arrests and release them immediately.

Journalists protest the imprisonment in Egypt of Al-Jazeera staffers Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed outside the network's offices in Sanaa, Yemen, on June 25, 2014. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)

We completely agree: Egyptian media in the era of President el-Sisi

April 27, 2015 11:01 AM EDT

If there were any doubt about who the presidential frontrunner would be in Egypt’s May 2014 elections, the Egyptian media made sure to strongly suggest that then-Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi was the only choice.

Demonstrators protest outside the presidential palace in Cairo. (AFP/Mahmoud Khaled)

Egyptian journalists report being brutalized in custody

May 7, 2012 4:57 PM EDT

New York, May 7, 2012–Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces must immediately investigate reports that two journalists were brutalized in military custody and bring the perpetrators to full account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.