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Egyptian website ordered shut in landmark media case

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Egyptian website ordered shut in landmark media case

A court ordered a leading independent Egyptian news site closed on Tuesday after its editor-in-chief was convicted of running the site without a licence and taken into custody pending bail, her lawyers and the outlet said.

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