From: The Listening Post
Project Wave: Exposed media corruption scandalises South Africa
A South African media empire is revealed to have been paid millions in exchange for pro-government coverage.
![Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein will have spent four years behind bars in Egypt this month [File: Khaled Desouki/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/000_1OX2AW.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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Operation at the Mada Masr offices comes a day after Egyptian security forces arrested one of its editors, Shady Zalat.
Hussein’s family calls on Egypt to allow him to attend funeral after requests to visit his ailing father were denied.
Father of detained Al Jazeera journalist is in critical condition and is unable to speak or eat, family says.
Hussein has been jailed in Cairo without charge since December 2016 after arriving from Qatar to visit his family.
Mahmoud Hussein’s freedom was ordered by an Egyptian court in May, but the reporter remains in detention.
Qatar-based network says Egypt becoming ‘a lawless country’ after its reporter was again incarcerated.
Qatar-based journalist’s continued detention comes despite an Egyptian court ruling last week to release him.
Mahmoud Hussein’s freedom was ordered by an Egyptian court last week, but the journalist remains in detention.
Mahmoud Hussein’s release order follows more than two years of imprisonment without charge or trial.
Network calls for the release of every reporter arbitrarily arrested worldwide, including Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Hussein.
