The case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah and Egypt’s crushing of dissent | The Listening Post
As Egypt’s President el-Sisi kicks off a "National Dialogue" on human rights, the precarious fate of jailed writer and activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah exposes the grave climate for free speech in the country. Contributors: Mona Seif – Sister of Alaa Abd el-Fattah Nancy Okail – President, Center for International Policy Amr Khalifa – Political analyst Sabrina Bennoui – Head of the Middle East desk, Reporters Without Borders On our radar: Fall from disgrace. Ex-journalist turned Prime Minister Boris Johnson is basically done at 10 Downing Street. Media, monopolies and the rewriting of Chile’s constitution: Chile is working on a new constitution that has some of Augusto Pinochet’s favourite news outlets fighting for their corporate lives. Contributors: Patricio Fernández – Member, Chilean Constitutional Convention Journalist & Founder, The Clinic Jorge Saavedra – Author, The Media Commons and Social Movements Claudio Fuentes – Historian, Diego Portales University; author, The Fraud: Chronicle on the Plebiscite of the 1980 Constitution Belén Pellegrini – Journalist, La Neta Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News
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