Persecution, prosecution and public shaming have led to a new wave of solidarity among women in Egypt. Could this kind of grassroots movement gain enough power to change the difficult situation on the ground?
The Egyptian-Palestinian activist was forced to renounce his Egyptian citizenship and has left for France, his family said. He had been in pre-trial detention for over two years.
Alaa Abdel Fatah was a prominent figure in the 2011 revolution that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak. The activist's family have long decried the conditions of his years-long detention.
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