Egyptian security forces have released on bail the editor-in-chief of one of the country’s last major independent news outlets, hours after her arrest in Cairo on Sunday.
Lina Attalah was conducting an interview with the mother of jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah when she was arrested outside the maximum security Tora prison in the capital city. Attalah’s news outlet, Mada Masr, reports that security officers confiscated her phone and denied her access to a lawyer.