Egypt’s government targeting journalists in media crackdown
04 May 2018 ( IBTN News Bureau )Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein has now been in an Egyptian jail for 500 days.
He was detained without charge by authorities in 2016 during a holiday to Cairo.
The Egyptian national is one of many journalists who've been harassed or threatened with arrest in recent years in a crackdown to stifle dissent against the government of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin Javaid reports.
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