(excerpt from) Amnesty International website
Egypt must investigate activists’ detention
Activists are at risk during the increasing clampdown on freedom of expression
5 February 2011
Amnesty International has called for an investigation into the detention of some 35 human rights activists and journalists, including two Amnesty International staff members, who were freed after spending almost two days in military custody.
The Egyptian and international human rights activists, lawyers and journalists were arrested Thursday when military police raided the offices of the Hisham Mubarak Law Center…
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