Egypt detains entire newsroom of leading fact-checking platform over 'fake news' allegations

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Reporters Without Borders denounces the arrests as the 'first' to target all staff of a media organisation, while more than 80 rights groups call for the journalists' immediate release Egyptian authorities have detained the entire newsroom of one of the country’s only independent media outlets in a move that rights groups have denounced as a “first” and an “alarming escalation” on free speech. On 28 and 29 September, security forces raided the homes of the six journalists - Mohamed Ashraf Abu Em