[harry8]

A foreign journalist working for a news organisation with a pretty good reputation. Generally that's news wherever it happens in the world. I haven't been following what has happened in Egypt. I now know it has become a place where foreign journalists working for Al-Jazeera are sentenced to prison when those in power don't like the reported stories. I'm sure there's a lot more nuance than that and it's a view through a straw at the country but it's not a good sign for Egypt. From spring straight to winter?

[rwallace]

I've been following enough of what's happened in Egypt that I can tell you this is the least of the bad news from there; spring passed straight to winter quite a while ago. In short, foreign interference in Egypt - in the Middle East in general - in recent years has been an unmitigated disaster. It's long past time we in the West started minding our own business and focused on fixing the problems in our own countries instead of exacerbating the problems in other people's countries.

[adobriyan]

> From spring straight to winter?

That would be Ukraine, where two Russian journalists were killed recently during bombing of Lugansk.

[rwissmann]

The death of journalists during intense fighting is - while extremely tragic and hopefully rare - not at all comparable to them getting sentenced by courts for simply reporting news. The former is to some degree unavoidable (if they got target specifically then everything changes), while the latter is an explicit act of government against freedom of press and speech.