Egypt blogger arrested for violating new law restricting protests

[JURIST] Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah [blog, in Arabic; Twitter feed] was arrested Thursday on charges of inciting a demonstration in violation of the country's recently enacted law [JURIST report] circumscribing citizens' right to protest in public. Egypt Prosecutor General Hisham Bakarat issued a warrant [AP report] for Abd El Fattah for failing to notify the police [AhramOnline report] in advance of the protests he allegedly organized. The new law requires that the police be notified at...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/11/egypt-blogger-arrested-for-inciting-protests-in-violation-of-new-law.php

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