In latest blow to press freedom, Egypt bars, then deports New York Times reporter

CAIRO — Egyptian officials placed a New York Times correspondent in custody after he landed in Cairo on Monday, detaining him for hours without food or water, and then ordered him onto a flight to London, the paper said Tuesday.

The expulsion of David D. Kirkpatrick is part of a growing crackdown on journalists by the government of President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, who is presiding over what critics describe as the most authoritarian era in Egypt’s modern history.