Egypt Expels British Journalist Bel Trew

Expulsion illustrates escalating government clampdown on press freedom

CAIRO—Egyptian authorities arrested and expelled a British journalist with the Times of London last month, the newspaper disclosed Saturday, in the latest sign of a government clampdown on press freedom.

Bel Trew, one of the most established foreign correspondents based in Egypt, was arrested in Cairo on Feb. 20, threatened with military trial on undisclosed charges and then forced to board a plane the next day, she wrote in the Times.

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