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| Tamarod co-founder detained for 15 days for joining 'outlawed group' |
| 2016-01-12 |
| [Al Ahram] Egypt's State Security Prosecution ordered on Monday the detention of activist Moheb Doss, a leading member of the anti-Morsi Tamarod group, for 15 days pending investigation on charges of joining an "outlawed group." Doss was placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on 6 January in front of the Saint Mark Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo Abbasiya's district, where Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi was giving a speech during the Coptic Christmas mass. He has been accused of joining an outlawed group called 'January 25 Youth', his lawyer Mohammed Fadel told Ahram Online, saying the charges were false. Doss was a leading member of the Tamarod campaign, which gathered milions of signatures in 2013 demanding that then-president Mohammed Morsi step down. There have been several calls for anti-government protests on 25 January, the fifth anniversary of the uprising that toppled then-president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... . Protesting without prior police permission is banned in Egypt, under a law passed in 2013. "The authorities don't have any evidence against him. He wasn't given the right to contact a lawyer, or even the right to be questioned by a normal prosecution, not a specialised one," Fadel added. |
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