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LEGISLATION WATCH- President Abdel Fattah El Sisi signed into law the controversial Press and Media Act Part 2<\/strong>, which passed the House of Representatives back in June, Al Masry Al Youm reports<\/a>. Egypt was the recipient of widespread criticism in the foreign press in July over the passing of the act, which includes<\/a> regulations and restrictions on social media accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LEGISLATION WATCH- President Abdel Fattah El Sisi signed into law the controversial Press and Media Act Part 2, which passed the House of Representatives back in June, Al Masry Al Youm reports. Egypt was the recipient of widespread criticism in the foreign press in July over the passing of the act, which includes regulations and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8572],"tags":[72,2380],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-624169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speed-round","tag-enterpriseam","tag-speed-round","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"b1368101-eaae-4e9e-bfe2-9ca6bebd43fc","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"7cfe9c62-722a-4929-b33b-b25588676fc2","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[624158],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nEl Sisi ratifies Press and Media Act part 2 - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/09\/02\/el-sisi-ratifies-press-and-media-act-part-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"El Sisi ratifies Press and Media Act part 2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LEGISLATION WATCH- President Abdel Fattah El Sisi signed into law the controversial Press and Media Act Part 2, which passed the House of Representatives back in June, Al Masry Al Youm reports. 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