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2019-12-01 Africa North
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Egyptian journalists, lawyer charged with ‘joining terror group’
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 [IsraelTimes] All three will remain in detention for 15 days, which can be renewed indefinitely; defense team says they are held in relation to recent arrests of professors, lawyers, journalists.
A pair of Egyptian journalists and a lawyer are facing charges of joining a "terrorist group," their lawyer confirmed Thursday, after they were detained amid a string of similar arrests.
Security forces detained husband and wife Hossam El-Sayed and Solafa Magdy, as well as lawyer Mohammed Salah, from a Cairo cafe on Tuesday.
Nabeeh Elganadi, a member of the journalists’ defense team, told AFP on Thursday that all three were held in relation to a case involving "recently arrested professors, lawyers, and journalists."
He said state security prosecutors had charged freelance journalist Magdy, her photojournalist husband and lawyer Salah with joining a "terrorist group."
Magdy was also charged with disseminating false news.
Elganadi filed a complaint with the attorney-general’s office Thursday over Magdy’s claims of torture at the hands of police at the Dokki station, where she was taken after being arrested.
"Police struck her arms and side as well as verbally hurling abuse at her. They also impounded her car and took her mobile phone," he said.
All three will remain in detention for 15 days, which can be renewed indefinitely.
Egyptian police on Sunday detained then released three editors at local news outlet Mada Masr, after arresting another editor the day before.
Amnesia Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Egypt of building a "parallel justice system" to crack down on critics and dissent.
It described the state security prosecution as a "tool of repression."
Since President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi led the military ouster of former Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013, a crackdown has ensnared activists, journalists and dissidents.
New York-based watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists roundly criticized the authorities’ renewed targeting of the journalists and dissidents.
"Egyptian authorities have clearly learned nothing after the international outcry over their recent detentions of journalists, and are determined to continue a losing strategy," it said in a statement.
Egypt ranks third in the world in terms of the number of journalists in detention, behind China and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
, according to CPJ.
Egypt reverts to type: secretive agency crushes dissenters with trumped-up charges
 [IsraelTimes] Egypt’s government is using a secretive judicial agency designed to fight terrorism to detain peaceful protesters, journalists and critics on trumped-up charges without trial, Amnesty International said in a report released Wednesday.
The 60-page report by the London-based rights group details how Egypt’s Supreme State Security Prosecution, or SSSP, has become increasingly central to President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s sweeping crackdown on dissent.
“In Egypt today, the Supreme State Security Prosecution has stretched the definition of ‘terrorism’ to encompass peaceful protests, social media posts, and legitimate political activities,” said Philip Luther, the group’s Middle East and North Africa director.
Concertgoers were accused of terrorism for waving rainbow-colored flags. A journalist charged with “broadcasting false news” was detained repeatedly for three years. A human rights lawyer was arrested for joining a protest he says he did not attend. Several Christians were imprisoned for “aiding a terrorist group,” a reference to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood organization. 
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