The international press is honing in on press freedom in Egypt once again. "Arresting journalists, sentencing reporters to death, treating media as an enemy of the state – such actions are thoroughly counterproductive,” the US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said in a thinly veiled attack on Egypt, which was chairing the UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday. H.A. Hellyer writes in Vox that the press has “so severely” turned on President Abdel Fattah El Sisi due to Egypt’s economic woes, while Australia’s ABC Cairo correspondent Walt Curnow rounds up the Press Syndicate’s raid in a bluntly titled Egypt’s military regime tightens noose on country’s media freedoms. Haaretz writes that Egypt’s “muzzled” press is trying to “bite back” in what the paper says is a sign that the El Sisi regime “is worse than those of former presidents Hosni Mubarak or Mohammed Morsi” when it comes to journalistic freedom.