Internet Censorship

On 22 October 2020, Telegram application and website were blocked for a limited period in Egypt on three networks (We, Vodafone and Orange). Several of Telegram users announced they cannot reach it. Telegram is a very famous and widely used applications.

On 8 March 2020, the Socialist Popular Alliance Party started Darb website (Khaled el-Balshi is the chief editor). After just one month it was blocked in Egypt. Darb is the third website in row to be blocked with Khaled as the chief editor. First the authorities blocked Al-Bedaya website in..Read More

The 20 September protests were followed by another call for protest on 27 September. And despite that this last call did not receive attention, yet the Egyptian government spent the whole week trying to block instant chatting applications and news websites. On 22 September, the government attempted to ban Wire..Read More

On 20 September 2019 a number of dispersed protests erupted in Egypt after a protest call by the contractor and actor Muhammad Ali who accused President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his government of corruption. Hours before the demonstrations started the Supreme Council for Media Regulation published a report entitled “Blocking and..Read More

On 1 April 2019, and parallel to the constitutional amendments referendum, a campaign with the name ‘Batel’ (meaning void or invalid) was launched. The campaign aimed at collecting signatures from citizens against the constitutional amendments. After just one day Batel’s website was blocked. The campaign provided an alternative link, but..Read More

Days after passing of the anti-cybercrime law, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ratified the press and media regulation law (this law also regulates the formation of the Supreme Council for Media Regulation). The law gives the Council the jurisdiction to block news websites in case they had no valid license. The Council..Read More

On 18 August 2018, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ratified the anti-information technology crimes law (known in the media as the anti-cybercrime law). The law gives the investigations authorities the powers to block websites “if there were evidence that any website, administrated from inside or outside Egypt, publishes statements, numbers, photos, movies,..Read More

On 26 May 2018, the Supreme Administrative Court issued a final ruling in the lawsuit requesting blocking YouTube. The Court approved the previous ruling to block the website for one month. The new ruling said: “the state, embodied in NATRA, should have hastened to block this insulting movie at once..Read More

After the 2011 court ruling to impose a fine in the case known as “cutting off communications during the revolution”, the Supreme Administrative Court issued a final ruling annulling the fine on President Hosni Mubarak, PM Ahmed Nazif, and Interior Minister Habib al-Adli. The court said the decree to cut..Read More