Egypt

In its annual census of imprisoned journalists, CPJ data shows nearly half of the 179 held in jail in 2011 worked primarily online. Al Jazeera highlights some of the challenges facing online journalism in the Middle East and around the world in 2011.

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New York, December 14, 2011-- The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the sentencing of Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad by a military court to two years in prison and a fine for insulting the military and calls for his immediate, unconditional release. Sanad, initially arrested in March was sentenced in April by a military court to three years in prison.

Following the collapse of the Mubarak regime in Egypt, Bassem Youssef rose to stardom with a satirical television show similar to Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. Now as the new government is beginning to look more like the old, he expresses his frustration over the ruling military council's actions to restrict the press in what CPJ's Mohamed Abdel Dayem calls "the height of hypocrisy."

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At least 26 civilians, mostly Coptic Christians, were killed in clashes with the military last week in what has become the worst violence seen in Egypt since the uprising earlier this year.  The Associated Press reiterates the CPJ's call on Egyptian authorities to investigate the death of Coptic broadcaster Wael Mikhael, who was killed after being shot in the head while filming the clashes.

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