The editor-in-chief of "Mada Misr" site was arrested from the vicinity of Tora prison

Mahmoud Refaat - Cairo

Egyptian security forces arrested on Sunday the editor-in-chief of the "Mada Misr" news site, Lina Atallah, from the vicinity of Tora prison, south of Cairo.

Mada Masr's official page on Facebook stated that security forces arrested Lina Atallah while conducting an interview in the prison setting with Leila Suef, the mother of the arrested activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah.

She noted that a prison official informed the lawyer of the site that she had been transferred to the prosecution, without clarifying the intended prosecution headquarters, which is supposed to be investigated.

While Mada Masr did not explain the reason for the arrest of its editor-in-chief, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior did not announce a position regarding what the website was blocked locally in the country, among the hundreds of websites that oppose or are not satisfied with the authority.

Days ago, Laila Suef was lining the ground in front of Tora prison, awaiting the visit and reassurance of her son Alaa Abdel-Fattah, especially after he went on hunger strike for a month, in protest against his pre-trial detention and denial of visits since his arrest last September.

Last November, the Egyptian authorities raided the offices of "Mada Masr", and arrested Lina Atallah and other journalists at the site, and all were released later.

The raid came at the time, days after the Mada Masr website revealed that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi had taken a decision to remove his eldest son, Mahmoud El-Sisi, from the political scene in the country by assigning him a long work mission in Egypt’s mission in Russia, which sparked controversy in the media landscape. In Egypt.