CairoEgypt charged Lina Attalah within 24 hours of questioning her.
It is the first trial against Mada Masr, and 119 rights groups, including Amnesty, call it unprecedented.
State security prosecutors questioned her six hours about her licence efforts since 2018 and a report on prisoner protests.
She appears in a New Cairo court Tuesday, facing fines of LE1 to 3 million and possible closure.
How each outlet framed it
- Mada Masr leans critical
- frames Attalah's trial as the first of its kind, for operating an unlicensed website, and links it to September's arrest of six Matsda2sh fact-checkers
Sources: Mada Masr