On Alaa’s hunger strike

By Omar Robert Hamilton Wednesday, August 20, 2014 – 07:33 After three spells of imprisonment since the start of the revolution, Alaa Abd El Fattah has declared that he is starting a hunger strike. Alaa is one of 25 people who were sentenced to 15 years in prison for attending/organizing a protest in November. A protest in which a policeman who

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Ahmed Maher, Jailed Egyptian Activist, Describes Prison In Smuggled Letters

  Shadee Ashtari Posted: 01/07/2014 5:04 pm EST Updated: 01/23/2014 10:53 am EST   “It is forbidden to read or write, and entering a pen and paper to the political prisoners is more difficult than smuggling in drugs, and whoever is caught with a pen or paper is tortured along with all those with him,” reads the Dec. 3 letter,

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