Egypt: Journalist Marks a Year in Detention

(Beirut) – Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Hussein marks one year in pretrial detention without proper due process on December 22, 2017, Human Rights Watch said today. Expand Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Hussein marks one year in pretrial detention without proper due process on December 22, 2017. © Private Egyptian authorities arrested Hussein, a Doha-based Al Jazeera TV journalist, on December 22, 2016, two days after he arrived for holidays in Egypt, his daughter, Aya Gomaa, told Human Rights Watch. State Security prosecutors ordered him detained on charges of “incitement against state institutions…

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