Image source, AFP via Getty ImagesImage caption, Lina Attalah has said Egypt is "trying to limit the already-limited space" for independent media. A criminal court in Cairo has postponed the retrial of the prominent Egyptian journalist Lina Attalah, whose case has drawn international condemnation. Wednesday's opening hearing was adjourned until 18 November after defence lawyers representing the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Masr requested a new judge.