Overview

• Police report dozens of recent arrests as prosecutors examine at least 10 cases of alleged unlawful financial gains tied to social-media activity.
• Authorities have imposed travel bans, frozen assets, and seized devices from accused creators.
• Nineteen-year-old Mariam Ayman, known as Suzy El Ordonia to 9.4 million followers, has been jailed since August 2 on charges of indecent content and laundering 15 million Egyptian pounds.
• The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights urges a halt to what it calls an aggressive campaign and says at least 151 people have been charged under the cybercrime law in five years.
• Prosecutors are encouraging public complaints as the Interior Ministry posts moral admonitions on TikTok, while TikTok says it removed more than 2.9 million videos from Egypt in its latest quarter.