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Egypt's Islamist Leaders Accused of Stifling Media
(New York Times) Kareem Fahim and Mayy El Sheikh - Last week, Egyptian authorities suspended a satellite television channel that featured a program whose host is Tawfik Okasha, a strident opponent of President Mohammed Morsi. On Saturday, authorities confiscated copies of Al Dustour, which has published regular condemnations of the Islamist group. Hani Shukrallah, the editor of Ahram Online, referring to the Muslim Brotherhood, said: "We've got an organization that is not interested in democratizing the press, or freeing the press. It's interested in taking it over."