Mediagazer: Egypt Seizes Newspapers to Censor an Article (David D. Kirkpatrick/New York Times)

9:20 PM ET, October 1, 2014

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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:

Egypt Seizes Newspapers to Censor an Article — CAIRO — The Egyptian authorities on Wednesday confiscated all the copies of one of the country's largest private newspapers in order to censor an article, just days after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi vowed in an American television interview that there was …

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Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:

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Patrick Strickland / The Electronic Intifada:

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

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Agence France-Presse:

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