A prominent investigative media outlet in Egypt said security forces detained its editor-in-chief Sunday, the latest arrest amid a wider crackdown on dissent.
Mada Masr, one of a shrinking number of independent news websites in Egypt, said Lina Attalah was arrested outside Cairo's Tora prison complex during an interview with Laila Soueif, the mother of jailed activist Alaa Abd El Fattah.
The outlet said Attalah was being held at a police station in southern Cairo, officials there said, and she would be questioned by prosecutors Monday.