The journalist Lina Attalah was released from custody after the payment of a three million Egyptian pound (US$53,400) fine, her lawyer, Hassan al-Azhari, said, according to Le Monde.

An Egyptian court ordered the closure of Mada Masr and fined Attalah three million Egyptian pounds (US$53,400) for running a website without a license, Al Jazeera reported. During the release procedures, she learned that she had been sentenced in absentia in 2024 to one year in prison, on charges of publishing false news and running an unlicensed website.