Egypt: Crackdown on Journalists Not New · Global Voices
Amira Al Hussaini

“Thursday’s sentencing and fining of four independent newspaper editors is not particularly new or surprising… (T)he two incidents do not herald an impending crackdown on the press, for the simple reason that Mubarak’s regime has been continuously cracking down on and intimidating independent journalists, from at least the early 1990s to the present,” writes Egyptian blogger Baheyya.