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Family of jailed Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah arrested in Cairo

Prominent activists Laila Soueif, Ahdaf Soueif, Mona Seif and Rabab el-Mahdy have been detained in Egypt after staging a small protest outside the cabinet headquarters.

They were demanding the release of political prisoners to prevent further spread of the novel coronavirus.
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