Egypt's journalists struggle under Mubarak-era laws

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By Ben Gilbert, for NBC News

CAIRO – A week before Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi issued a decree vastly expanding his powers and prohibiting judicial review of his decisions, an Egyptian satellite TV station, famous for helping re-energize the Egyptian uprising in February 2011, was forced off the air.

Follow @NBCNewsWorld(Morsi, on Saturday, scaled back the decree, but this week's vote on a new constitution will go ahead as planned.)

The station, Dream TV, rose to international prominence after broadcasting an interview with former Google executive and Egyptian activist Wael Ghonim -- an interview that re-inspired the protest movement that led to the end of Hosni Mubarak’s presidency.

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