A scene from the fifth round matches of the Walton Metropolis FIDE Rating Chess Tournament at Bangladesh Chess Federation hall-room on Sunday.

Record 18 journalists jailed in Egypt

AFP, Cairo :Journalists are facing “unprecedented threats” in Egypt with a record number behind bars, mostly for links with ousted president Mohamed Morsi’s banned Muslim Brotherhood, a media watchdog said Thursday.The Committee to Protect Journalists said at least 18 journalists, many of whom worked for online media, were locked up in Egypt, the most since it began keeping records in 1990.“The threat of imprisonment in Egypt is part of an atmosphere in which authorities pressure media outlets to censor critical...

26 Jun 2015, 12:00 am