A prominent investigative media outlet in Egypt said security forces detained its editor-in-chief Sunday, the latest arrest amid a wider crackdown on dissent and the media, reports AP.
Mada Masr, one of a shrinking number of independent news websites in Egypt, said Lina Attalah was arrested outside Cairo's Tora prison complex. The outlet said she was conducting an interview with Laila Soueif, the mother of jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah.
Attalah's lawyer, Hassan el-Azhari, told The Associated Press his client was accused of filming a military facility without permission - likely referring to Tora prison, which is considered a military facility.
Prosecutors fined Attalah 2,000 Egyptian pounds ($125) and ordered her release, el-Azhari said. She was returned to a police station in southern Cairo's Maadi district to finalize the procedures. Late Sunday, Attalah was released from the police station, the outlet said.
