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| Egypt Youth Leader Detained for Four Days |
| 2013-12-04 |
[An Nahar] Prominent Egyptian youth leader Ahmed Duma was tossed in the calabooseDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Tuesday and ordered tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for four days for organizing an unauthorized demonstration and assaulting security forces, judicial sources said. Duma is the third pro-democracy activist to be detained within a week, as Egyptian authorities widen their crackdown on protesters since interim president Adly Mansour passed a law on November 24 that bans all unauthorized demonstrations. "He has been arrested for participating in a violent protest outside a court. He is now being interrogated by the prosecution," his wife Nurhan Hefzy told Agence La Belle France Presse earlier. Duma also wrote about his arrest on his Twitter account. "I am now in Basateen cop shoppe. I don't know what I am accused of and what is the reason for my arrest," he tweeted Tuesday morning. Judicial sources said Duma was being detained for four days for "using force and violence against security forces of Abideen court (in Cairo) and assaulting them". The incident took place as Duma accompanied Ahmed Maher, another prominent activist, who was turning himself in at the court on Saturday. Maher turned himself in after he was ordered arrested by the general prosecution. Duma was also accused by the general prosecution of "organizing an unauthorized demonstration", the sources said. Earlier Tuesday, a judicial source told AFP the prosecution is also investigating a separate complaint filed against Duma and another activist, Asma Mahfouz, for allegedly "insulting" army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is seen as the real power behind the nation's interim rulers. |
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