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Washington - Egyptian authorities in recent weeks have released several journalists, including Mohamed Salah and Abdo Fayed among others. Salah had been

Washington - Egyptian authorities in recent weeks have released several journalists, including Mohamed Salah and Abdo Fayed among others. Salah had been

Although Cairo has freed some media workers from prison, many more are caught up in perpetual detention

Washington - Egyptian authorities in recent weeks have released several journalists, including Mohamed Salah and Abdo Fayed among others. Salah had been

Egypts Public Prosecution yesterday  released 41 political activists from pretrial detention, two days after President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said the country needs to engage in political dialogu...

Egypt on Sunday released 41 political prisoners from pre-trial detention, according to a politician-turned-negotiator, in a country where many more remain behind bars."Forty-one of those held on remand detention on political charges and (charges related to) freedom of thought and expression" have been released, Mohamed al-Sadat said.Long a fixture of Egypt's political scene, Sadat is a nephew of former president Anwar al-Sadat and has recently emerged as an unofficial negotiator f...

More detainees expected to be released ahead of next week's holiday, but thousands more likely to remain locked up on charges like spreading 'false news'

Those released were all being held on political charges and charges related to freedom of thought and expression

Rights groups estimate that tens of thousands of such prisoners are being held in Egypt - Click the link for more details.