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Egypt. 18 arrested in demonstration supporting women
Eighteen people, mostly women, were arrested at a solidarity protest with the women of Gaza and Sudan outside the UN Women headquarters in Cairo on Tuesday, a local lawyer said Wednesday.
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"I am currently in front of the State Security Prosecution [...] those arrested yesterday [Tuesday] are journalists, lawyers and students," said Khaled Ali, an Egyptian human rights lawyer, on Facebook.
Khaled Ali said that among those arrested were human rights lawyers Ragia Omran and Mahienour el-Massry, as well as activist Lobna Darwish, from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), and specified that "citizens who happened to be passing by the meeting" were also arrested.
"Our colleague Lobna Darwish [...] is one of those arrested during a women's demonstration in solidarity with Palestine and Sudan," Hossam Bahgat, one of the most influential human rights defenders in Egypt and founder of EIPR, had already written on Tuesday.
In a statement released overnight on its Facebook page, the Civil Democratic Movement (CDM), a coalition of 12 opposition political parties, condemned "the detention of a number of Egyptian women, including activists, journalists and lawyers, while holding a peaceful demonstration on Tuesday afternoon in front of the headquarters of the UN Women agency to demand an end to the war" in Gaza.
The movement cites witnesses who said that "the demonstration was violently dispersed" and that several activists "were taken to an unknown location".
The movement and the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms demanded the "immediate release" of all those detained by the police.
Protests are generally illegal in Egypt, a state ranked 136th out of 142 on the World Justice Project's list of countries with the best rule of law.
Egypt is one of the countries that uses the death penalty the most. According to Washington, Cairo violates human rights "in everything from prisons to freedom of expression and LGBT+ rights".
In April 2022, a presidential pardon commission was formed, which allowed the release of nearly a thousand prisoners of conscience in one year,
However, several human rights organizations claim that more than 3,000 people were arrested during the same period.
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