Egypt: Protest and Repression

By by Noha Radwan “We do not like prisons, but they do not scare us,” says Mahienour al-Masry, an Egyptian lawyer and human rights activist who was serving a three year prison sentence for violating anti-protest laws before her recent release. In the latest of numerous campaigns seeking justice within the Egyptian judiciary system, more than sixty of Egypt’s political prisoners began hunger strikes in August. Other activists and public intellectuals are also partaking of the strikes in solidarity with the…

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