{"id":74692,"date":"2019-02-21T03:45:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=74692"},"modified":"2019-02-21T03:45:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:45:34","slug":"journalist-barred-from-entering-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/02\/21\/journalist-barred-from-entering-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist barred from entering Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Egyptian authorities denied entry to a veteran New York Times <\/em>reporter without explanation, the latest move in the country\u2019s crackdown on free speech and the media.<\/p>\n

David Kirkpatrick, a citizen of the United States (US), arrived at Cairo International Airport on Monday, but was barred from entering Egypt, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n

Security officials held the former Cairo bureau chief for seven hours without food or water after confiscating his mobile phone, before sending him back on an EgyptAir flight to London on Tuesday, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are deeply disturbed that the government of Egypt detained our correspondent, kept him incommunicado, denied him food or water, and refused to allow him into the country,\u201d<\/em> Michael Slackman, international editor of The New York Times<\/em>, said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Egypt\u2019s interior ministry could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

Kirkpatrick was the newspaper\u2019s Cairo bureau chief from 2011 to 2015 and last year authored a book on the Arab Spring uprisings.<\/p>\n

His writings have long stirred controversy and pro-government media in Egypt have previously criticised his reporting.<\/p>\n

In 2018, pro-government newspaper Youm7 accused Kirkpatrick of \u201cdeliberately distorting Egypt\u2019s [image]\u201d after he reported on Egyptian officials\u2019 \u201ctacit acceptance\u201d of the US\u2019s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.<\/p>\n

Kirkpatrick\u2019s denial of entry is part of a broader crackdown on media in Egypt in recent years.<\/p>\n

Egypt under general-turned- President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has launched an unprecedented assault on Egyptian journalists, imprisoning dozens and occasionally expelling foreign journalists.<\/p>\n

Last month, an Egyptian court sentenced a television host to one year in prison for interviewing a gay man.<\/p>\n

A British journalist was expelled in February 2018 with officials claiming she broke the law by conducting interviews without a press permit.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Mahmoud Hussein, who has yet to be formally charged, has been in detention and kept in solitary confinement since December 2016. Hussein has now spent 789 days in prison.<\/p>\n

He is accused of \u201cdisseminating false news and receiving monetary funds from foreign authorities in order to defame the state\u2019s reputation\u201d<\/em>\u2014 charges long denied by Al Jazeera Media Network. \u2014 Al Jazeera<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Egyptian authorities denied entry to a veteran New York Times reporter without explanation, the latest move in the country\u2019s crackdown on free speech and the media. David Kirkpatrick, a citizen of the United States (US), arrived at Cairo International Airport on Monday, but was barred from entering Egypt, the newspaper reported. Security officials held the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74697,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74692\/revisions\/74697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}