BBC and free .. The latest victims of blocking sites in Egypt

The Egyptian authorities have banned the BBC and Al-Hurra sites for covering protests that erupted in the past two days demanding the departure of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.

It is interesting that this blocking came amid news of the lifting of the ban on some sites, including Al Jazeera Net in Egypt, note that the Egyptian authorities have blocked about 500 sites for several years, which was repeatedly condemned human rights in vain.

Safa Faisal, director of the BBC's Cairo office, said during a blog post on her Facebook page that the office had received repeated reports and complaints about the difficulty of browsing the site from inside Egypt, noting that they do not know a reason for this, but they are monitoring the situation closely.

In turn, Al-Hurra channel followed the recent demonstrations in Egypt and showed pictures and videos of the demonstrators and their slogans demanding the departure of El-Sisi.

The famous Egyptian journalist Hossam Bahgat on his Twitter page, pointing to the coincidence of blocking the site of the US government Hurra, with the start of Sisi visit to the United States.

While government agencies in Egypt ignored the commentary on the demonstrations called for by artist and contractor Mohamed Ali, who worked with the army for years before turning to uncovering corruption of Sisi, his wife, and a number of army commanders, the State Information Service (SIS) called on international media not to rely on media outlets as sources. News.

A statement by the agency, which is the official body that oversees the work of foreign media in Egypt, called on all correspondents to publish only on the facts they see themselves or from reliable sources to make sure other reliable sources who have seen the facts all with their own eyes.

This came after several media outlets broadcast outside Egypt published clips of the protests that took place on Friday evening in downtown Cairo and in several cities, including Mahalla al-Kubra in the Egyptian Delta.

The local media ignored the demonstrations on the first day, and then spoke on the second day of what he described as "fabricated and fictitious" demonstrations.