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

Egypt detains entire newsroom of leading fact-checking platform over 'fake news' allegations Submitted by MEE staff on Fri, 10/02/2026 - 10:51 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 In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi attends the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on 13 September (AFP/Alexander Kazakov) Off Egyptian authorities have detained the entire newsroom of one of the…