📰 Media & Journalism Aug 12, 2026 · CPJ Staff

CPJ, partners demand release of detained Shi’a Muslims in Egypt, including journalist Haidar Qandil

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The Committee to Protect Journalists joined partner organizations on Wednesday to strongly condemn the arrest and enforced disappearance of at least 36 Shi’a Muslims in Egypt, including journalist Haidar Qandil, and called for their immediate release.



Qandil was arrested on June 22, 2026, outside the offices of Al-Dostor newspaper in Giza, Greater Cairo, and taken to an undisclosed location — just hours after he had spent the day documenting the arrests of Egyptian Shi’a Muslims a

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