Hundreds of Egyptians on Wednesday afternoon staged a protest march against sexual harassment and violence against women from Cairo’s Sayyida Zeinab Square to the nearby Tahrir Square.
Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah remains in prison, even though he finished his unfair five-year sentence on September 29, 2024.
He has been detained in Egypt since September 2019 and in 2021 was sentenced to five years in prison after being accused of spreading false news.
At least one protester was killed and 50 others were injured in clashes Friday between Egyptian protesters and security forces near the presidential palace, Egyptian media reported.
Protesters held placards and chanted: “No to Displacing Palestinian People” and “No to Liquidating the Palestinian Cause".
The mother of jailed Egyptian-British dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah was taken to hospital on Monday night as she neared the 150th day of a hunger strike in protest against her son's imprisonment in .
Ahmed Kamel, who has spent months in a Saudi immigration detention centre, will be deported to Cairo on Wednesday, where he faces a life sentence for his role in pro-democracy protests in 2011 and .