Egyptian authorities Sunday arrested an award-winning human rights lawyer, after she had participated in the investigation of this weekend’s mass arrests of protesters in the country.
This was stated by her lawyer.
– Mahienour el-Massry was arrested as soon as she left the statsanklagerens office in Cairo, where she had participated in a meeting as a lawyer for some of those arrested during the demonstrations, says lawyer Tarek al-on the Homepage.
Massry, a political activist and human rights campaigner, has twice previously been arrested and tried for participating in demonstrations.
While she was imprisoned for the first time between december 2013 and september 2014, she received the international human rights prize Ludovic Trarieux.
Several hundred people gathered Friday evening in Tahrir square in Cairo, which in 2011 was the epicentrum of the mass demonstrations that led to the authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak’s fall.
the Protests directed against president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former general, who stood in the forefront of Egypt, after the military in a coup removed the first democratically elected president in the country, Mohamed Mursi, in 2013. He belonged to the party of The Muslim Brotherhood.
Sisi has been running a hard line over to the now banned party and critics of the regime. Thousands of islamists are in prison, along with secular activists and well-known bloggers.
Saturday, there was a new demonstrations in the city of Suez, where the police clashed with the protesters. They were met with tear gas, and dozens were arrested.
According to the ngo, The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights is 365 persons have been arrested since Friday.
the Weekend’s demonstrations come after there has been circulating a series of videos on the net, where president Sisi and the military is accused of widespread corruption.
Since president sisi’s inauguration are demonstrations of this kind have been extremely rare in Egypt. The president forbade in 2013, public protests, and who has for several years been formal state of emergency in the country.
