Legal Support for Journalists and Media Professionals Annual Report 2024
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The Egyptian Observatory for Journalism and Media issues its annual legal report for the year 2024, covering the period from January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2024. This report aims to shed light on the cases of journalists and media professionals before the Egyptian judiciary during 2024, the efforts of the Legal Support and Assistance Unit in these cases, the key successes of the unit during the year, and the obstacles faced by lawyers while performing their duties and providing legal support. Additionally, the report reviews the most significant legal violations affecting media freedoms in 2024. The report is divided into three main sections.
The first section presents an overview of the cases involving journalists and media professionals before the Egyptian judiciary in 2024, along with developments in these cases, whether they were ongoing from previous years or newly initiated during the past year.
Between January 1 and December 31, the Legal Support and Assistance Unit provided legal support to 53 journalists across 52 cases, distributed as follows:
- In criminal cases, the unit provided direct support to 25 journalists in 15 cases, and indirect support to 3 journalists in 3 cases.
- In labor cases, the legal support team provided direct legal assistance to 25 journalists in 34 cases pending before first-instance and appellate labor courts, as well as before expert offices at the Ministry of Justice. This also included appeals submitted by journalists before the Appeals Committee of the Journalists’ Syndicate.
Journalists accused in criminal cases during 2024 faced the following