Egypt: Activists Arrested in Dawn Raids
(World News Egypt)

Expand Wael Abbas (top left), Haitham Mohamadeen (top right), Shady Abu Zaid (bottom left), and Amal Fathy (bottom right), were all arrested this month for charges such as joining `a banned group` or `terrorist organization` and spreading `false news.` © 2018 Private; Photo of Haitham Mohamadeen courtesy of Hossam el-Hamalawy (Beirut) - Egyptian police and National Security forces have carried out a wave of arrests of critics of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in dawn raids since early May 2018, Human Rights Watch said today. The charges against them appear to be solely based on their social media posts and peaceful activism. Security briefly held several of the detainees incommunicado. Those...