A prominent pro-democracy Egyptian activist who spent five years in prison for taking part in a peaceful protest was released earlier this year, but had to spend each night in a police station under the terms. His family says he was just arrested again.
FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2014, file photo, Egypt's leading pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah takes a moment as he speaks about his late father Ahmed Seif, one of Egypt's most respected human rights lawyers, during a conference held at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. The family of Abdel-Fattah, said security forces have re-arrested him on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019, while he was under probation.
Abdel-Fattah rose to prominence with the 2011 pro-democracy uprisings that swept the Middle East and in Egypt, toppled long-time President Hosni Mubarak. To many, his imprisonment three years later — at a time when authorities imposed draconian laws banning public gatherings and unauthorized demonstrations — was another sign of Egypt’s return to autocratic rule.
“I was waiting for him to walk out this morning, but the area around the police station was sealed off. They did not allow me to get in as they were doing every day,” she said. Abdel-Fattah has been detained several times before under different governments for lobbying for civil rights on social media and in public. An influential blogger, he hails from a family of political activists, lawyers and writers. His late father was one of Egypt’s most tireless rights lawyers, his sisters are also political activists and his aunt is the award-winning novelist Ahdaf Soueif.
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