据《美联社》报道，埃及最后几家独立新闻媒体之一的《Mada Masr》的主编将面临审判。该媒体的律师表示，检察官对她进行了长达六个小时的讯问后，她将被送上法庭。
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The editor-in-chief of one of Egypt’s last independent news outlets, Mada Masr, will stand trial after prosecutors questioned her for more than six hours, her lawyer said early Thursday.
埃及最高检察院于周四以“未经许可擅自建立并运营网站”的罪名将《Mada Masr》的负责人莉娜·阿塔拉（Lina Attalah）移送法院审理。据《Mada Masr》的律师哈桑·阿扎里（Hassan al-Azhari）称，她还因“发布虚假新闻”这一罪名受到讯问，但这一罪名并未被正式列入起诉书。
The Supreme State Prosecution referred Mada Masr’s Lina Attalah to trial on Thursday on a charge of establishing and managing a website without a license. She was also questioned on a charge of publishing false news, but that charge was not included in her court referral, according to Mada Masr’s lawyer, Hassan al-Azhari.
阿扎里表示，阿塔拉已于周三晚被释放，需缴纳10万埃及镑（约合1800美元）的保释金；如果被判有罪，她可能面临100万至300万埃及镑（1.8万至5.4万美元）的罚款。
She was released Wednesday evening on bail of 100,000 Egyptian pounds ($1,800), but if convicted, she faces a fine of one to three million Egyptian pounds ($18,000 to $54,000), al-Azhari said.
根据埃及媒体法，法院有权下令关闭该媒体机构并没收其所有设备。阿扎里批评检方在讯问结束后数小时内就迅速将案件移送法院，这种做法“毫无正当理由”。阿塔拉的开庭日期定于10月27日。
Under Egyptian media law, the court may also order the outlet closed and its equipment confiscated. Al-Azhari called the speed of the referral, which came just hours after the questioning ended, “unjustified urgency.”Attalah is due in court on Oct. 27.
莉娜·阿塔拉于2013年创立了《Mada Masr》，该媒体的调查性报道使其成为当局的频繁目标。自2017年以来，该网站在埃及一直被封锁。2020年，《时代》杂志将她列为全球最具影响力的人物之一。
Attalah founded Mada Masr in 2013, and its investigative reporting has made it a frequent target of authorities. The site has been blocked in Egypt since 2017. Time magazine named Attalah one of its 100 most influential people in 2020.
阿扎里透露，案件档案中包含《Mada Masr》本月早些时候发布的一篇报道，其中律师们描述了多所监狱发生的抗议活动以及当局的严厉镇压措施。这些抗议活动发生在议会决定将埃及新的刑事诉讼法推迟实施一年的背景下。
The case file included a Mada Masr report published earlier this month in which lawyers described a wave of protests at several prisons and a harsh security response, al-Azhari said. The protests followed parliament’s decision to delay Egypt’s new criminal procedures law by a year.
《Mada Masr》表示，自2018年以来他们已多次申请媒体许可证，但最高媒体监管委员会始终未予回应；直到2022年他们才从检方处得知委员会拒绝了他们的申请。该媒体已通过法律途径对这一决定提出质疑，其最新的许可证申请至今仍未得到批准（该申请自2023年起一直处于待审状态）。
Mada Masr said it has applied for a license several times since 2018. It says the Supreme Media Regulatory Council never responded and that it learned of the council’s rejection from prosecutors in 2022. The outlet challenged that decision in court. Its latest application has been pending since 2023, Mada Masr said.
这是六年来针对 Mada Masr 及其记者的第六起诉讼案件。该事件发生在 9 月 28 日和 29 日安全部队在全国范围内突袭独立事实核查与调查机构 Matsadaash 的整个新闻团队（共六人）之后不到一个月。他们的家人和律师在数天内都不知道他们的下落。
The case is the sixth against Mada Masr and its journalists in six years. It comes less than a month after security forces arrested the entire six-person newsroom of Matsadaash, an independent fact-checking and investigative platform, in raids across the country on Sept. 28 and 29. Their families and lawyers did not know where they were for days.
这六名记者目前仍被关押在审前拘留所中，被指控的罪名包括“加入恐怖组织”和“传播虚假信息”，但他们对此予以否认。他们的拘留期限已于 10 月 13 日被延长了 15 天。
The six remain in pre-trial detention on charges including joining a terrorist group and spreading false news, which they deny. Their detention was renewed for 15 days on Oct. 13.
本周，Mada Masr 与其他七家埃及及阿拉伯媒体机构联合成立了一个临时的事实核查新闻小组，以表达对这几位被拘留记者的支持。
This week, Mada Masr and seven other Egyptian and Arab outlets launched a temporary joint fact-checking newsroom in solidarity with the detained journalists.
在“无国界记者”组织发布的 2026 年世界新闻自由指数中，埃及在 180 个国家中排名第 169 位。
Egypt ranks 169th of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders’ 2026 World Press Freedom Index.