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Egypt's Climate of Intimidation

(Washington Post) Editorial - The most important measure of Egypt's Islamist government will be whether it preserves the democratic norms that allowed its own rise to power. In recent months at least half a dozen prominent editors, writers and cartoonists have been the targets of criminal investigations, many of them launched by a prosecutor appointed by Morsi following complaints from the president's office. And the government has not hesitated to impose its agenda on state-run media, installing its own editors and yanking unsympathetic news hosts off the air.
2013-01-15 00:00:00
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