; and (4) the detention of 17 journalists as of December 1, 2023, with 14 journalists being held without charge in the West Bank under administrative detention, according to CPJ; Whereas the Egyptian Government’s repression of the media has expanded under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi since 2013, including attacks on independent media outlet Mada Masr, whom the Government has targeted with specious charges brought against editor-in-chief Lina Attalah and journalist Rana Mamdouh, and with at least 11 journalists imprisoned by the Government as of December 1, 2023, according to CPJ, including— (1) Alaa Abd El Fattah, a blogger sentenced to 5 years in prison for broadcasting false news , who embarked on a hunger strike on April 2, 2022, to protest his mistreatment, which he escalated to a near-fatal water strike that prompted a forced medical intervention by prison officials upon the start of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Conference of the Parties 27 (COP 27) climate summit, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on November 6, 2022; and (2) Mohamed Ibrahim, a blogger also known as Mohamed Oxygen , who has spent over 4 years in pretrial detention, 2 years beyond the 2-year legal limit for such pretrial detention; Whereas Lokman Slim was murdered in southern Lebanon on February 4, 2021, after warning that he had been threatened and accused of treason by supporters of Hezbollah and, to date, no arrests or charges have been made in the investigation into his murder; Whereas the Office of the Director of National Intelligence concluded that the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist and United States legal permanent resident Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul was approved by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and impunity continues for the Saudi officials involved in this crime