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Egypt: Thousands Protest Military Detention of Prominent Blogger

HeadlineNov 01, 2011

Thousands of Egyptians protested on Monday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to protest the military’s recent detention of prominent blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah on charges of inciting violence and sabotage. El Fattah has said the army had no legitimacy to even interrogate him and said he would only speak to a civilian official. The Egyptian activist Yahiya Wahid took part in Monday’s protest.

Yahiya Wahid, Egyptian activist: “This case shows how unfair the military council is towards the revolutionaries. The council that originally said, 'We are protecting the revolution,' is now throwing them into military jails and trying them in military courts. And the others who have robbed the people and killed them are being tried in front of regular courts and are living in five-star prisons.”

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