{"id":26456,"date":"2016-06-29T02:18:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T02:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/egypt-deports-liliane-daoud-british-lebanese\/"},"modified":"2016-06-29T02:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T02:18:00","slug":"egypt-deports-liliane-daoud-british-lebanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/egypt-deports-liliane-daoud-british-lebanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt deports Liliane Daoud, British-Lebanese talkshow host"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Egyptian authorities have deported a popular British-Lebanese television talkshow host, Liliane Daoud.}<\/p>\n

Ms Daoud, a former BBC journalist, was detained by plainclothes policemen at her home in Cairo on Monday and put on a plane to Beirut.<\/p>\n

The move came hours after her contract was terminated by privately-owned OnTV.
\nHer show, Al-Soura Al-Kamila (The Full Picture), controversially aired views critical of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and his government.<\/p>\n

Mr Sisi has cracked down on dissent since leading the military’s overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.<\/p>\n

{{‘Campaign against free journalism’}}<\/p>\n

Ms Daoud’s 10-year-old daughter, an Egyptian national, was at their home when her mother was led away by police. Officers reportedly confiscated Ms Daoud’s mobile phone and British passport.<\/p>\n

There was no formal explanation for Ms Daoud’s deportation, but a security official told the Associated Press (AP) that her residency permit had expired.<\/p>\n

Shortly before her arrest, Ms Daoud had written on Twitter: “I am announcing the official termination of my contract with OnTV after five years that began in 2011.”
\nMs Daoud’s lawyer, Zyad el-Elaimy, said her first comment after landing in Beirut was that she would challenge the decision.<\/p>\n

“It’s the first time someone is deported in this fashion in Egypt,” Mr Elaimy told AP by telephone from Cairo.<\/p>\n

The Egyptian authorities, he added, were “not prepared to hear any diverse voices or to hear anyone who is supportive” of the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime President Hosni Mubarak.<\/p>\n

“This is a campaign against respectable media and free journalism,” said Al-Soura Al-Kamila’s editor-in-chief, Amer Tamam.<\/p>\n

“All we were doing was presenting a respectable show… so we don’t know what we are being punished for.”<\/p>\n

OnTV was sold last month by the billionaire businessman Naguib Sawiris to Ahmed Abou Hashima, a steel magnate and Sisi supporter.<\/p>\n

Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served briefly as interim vice-president after Morsi was ousted, praised Ms Daoud for her “professionalism, credibility and courage”.<\/p>\n

“One day we may have enough self-confidence to understand the value of having different opinions,” he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Satirist Bassem Youssef, whose TV show was taken off air for its criticism of the government, said her arrest was “just the beginning”.<\/p>\n

“Egypt… can’t tolerate the rest of the world,” he wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n

In May, the head of the Egyptian journalists’ union and two other top members were recently charged with harbouring fugitives following a police raid of the union’s headquarters that saw two journalists for an opposition website arrested.<\/p>\n

Also on Monday, the prominent feminist activist Mozn Hassan was banned from travelling to Beirut for a meeting of women human rights defenders.<\/p>\n

Nazra for Feminist Studies, which Ms Hassan founded, said she was barred due to her alleged involvement in a case in which non-governmental organisations have been accused of receiving foreign funds with the aim of sowing chaos.<\/p>\n

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