The case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah and Egypt’s crushing of dissent
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As Egypt’s President el-Sisi kicks off a "National Dialogue" on human rights, the precarious fate of jailed writer and activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah exposes the grave climate for free speech in the country.\r\n\r\nContributors:\r\nMona Seif - Sister of Alaa Abd el-Fattah\r\nNancy Okail - President, Center for International Policy\r\nAmr Khalifa - Political analyst\r\nSabrina Bennoui - Head of the Middle East desk, Reporters Without Borders\r\n\r\nOn our radar:\r\nFall from disgrace. Ex-journalist turned Prime Minister Boris Johnson is basically done at 10 Downing Street.\r\n\r\nMedia, monopolies and the rewriting of Chile’s constitution:\r\nChile is working on a new constitution that has some of Augusto Pinochet’s favourite news outlets fighting for their corporate lives.\r\n\r\nContributors:\r\nPatricio Fernández - Member, Chilean Constitutional Convention Journalist & Founder, The Clinic\r\nJorge Saavedra - Author, The Media Commons and Social Movements\r\nClaudio Fuentes - Historian, Diego Portales University; author, The Fraud: Chronicle on the Plebiscite of the 1980 Constitution\r\nBelén Pellegrini - Journalist, La Neta
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