Editor’s note: as this piece was published, news broke of a raid on Mada Masr’s offices. Security forces left after over three hours, having detained at least three staff members including the editor-in-chief, Lina Attalah. Shady Zalat, the subject of this article, was released from detention on an outlying Cairo road an hour after the raid ended.
In the early hours of Saturday morning there was a loud banging on Shady Zalat’s door. He will have known they had come for him.
They are counting on fatigue, confusion, boredom – the friends of all authoritarians
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