Egypt: In January 2011, the Egyptian authorities cancelled all of the network’s licenses to operate and blocked the broadcast signals of Al Jazeera’s satellite channels on its state-run NileSat. - In February 2011, the security forces arrested bureau chief, Abdel Fattah Fayed, along with the Al Jazeera English correspondent Ayman Mohieldin and two journalists, Ahmed Youssef and Osama Abdel Aziz Hassan. In the same month, the Network’s offices in Cairo were van- dalised. - In July 2013, following the military coup against President Mo- hamed Morsi, the security forces stormed Al Jazeera’s bureau in Cairo and arrested 28 employees, all of whom were working for Al Jazeera Mubasher Egypt, including the channel’s Managing Director, Ayman Gaballah. Later on, all were released, and Gaballah was sentenced in absentia. In the same month, Al Jazeera Mubasher cameraman, Mu- hammad Badr, was arrested and imprisoned for seven months before he was acquitted and released. - In August 2013, during Al Jazeera’s coverage of the Rab’a sit-in and the crackdown by the authorities that killed hundreds of people, four of the channel’s journalists were arrested, one of whom was corre- spondent Abdullah Al-Shami, who was detained for ten months without charges. Al-Shami went on hunger strike for four months during his detention and was released on June 17, 2014, and had to leave Egypt. On September 8, 2018, he was sentenced in absentia to 15 years impris- onment. In August 2013, the Egyptian authorities terminated Al Jazeera Mubasher’s license and detained the entire crew of Al Jazeera English for two days (1) . - In September 2013, Al Jazeera investigations revealed that the Mahran Al-Diri, a digital correspondent for Al Jazeera.Net, who was killed on 10 December 2014 while on his way to cover the clashes in Sheikh Miskin, near Daraa. Muhammad Al-Asfar, a cameraman who was killed on 26 June 2015 while he was filming the fighting in Al-Manshiya neighbourhood in Daraa. Zakaria Ibrahim, a cameraman who was killed on 7 December 2015 after being hit by shrapnel while covering the bombing of a suburb in Homs. Ibrahim Al-Omar, a correspondent who was killed on 11 July 2016 in a Russian air strike on Termanin near Idlib.
(1) The arrested journalists are Baher Mohamed, Ross Finn, Adel Bradlow and Wayne Hay.
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