Egypt Detains Award-winning Rights Lawyer
Muhammad Irfan Published September 23, 2019 | 01:00 AM
Cairo, Sept 22 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Sep, 2019 ) :Egyptian authorities on Sunday detained an award-winning human rights lawyer after she attended judicial investigations into protesters arrested during rare demonstrations against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, her lawyer said.
Mahienour El-Massry "was arrested as soon as she left the State Security Prosecutor's headquarters in Cairo, where she had attended the investigations as a lawyer for several of those arrested during the demonstrations", Tarek al-Awadi said.
Hundreds of Egyptians took to the streets in Cairo and several other cities across the country on Friday to call for Sisi's departure.
According to the Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights, 365 people have since been arrested.
Massry, a political activist and human rights defender, has been tried and jailed twice for taking part in demonstrations.
In December 2013, following the army's overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi following mass protests, she was arrested and imprisoned until September 2014 on charges of participating in a demonstration without a permit.
While in prison, Massry received the Ludovic Trarieux Award, an international prize given out annually to a lawyer for contributions to human rights.
In 2015, Massry was given another year-long sentence for taking part in a sit-in during Morsi's rule.
Egypt effectively banned protests under a law passed following Morsi's 2013 ouster.
Sisi was elected president the following year with 96.9 percent of the vote.
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