Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Egypt detains 4 activists for posters critical of military


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Al-Masry Al-Youm

"Egyptian police detained four activists on Tuesday for putting up posters critical of the ruling military council, a step a human rights lawyer said was part of an effort to neutralize the protest movement......

The four activists were members of the April 6 Youth Movement that helped mobilize the anti-Mubarak uprising. They were detained while hanging up posters comparing heroic images of soldiers after the 1973 war with Israel with pictures of troops beating women in Cairo during protests last month, according to Amr Ezz, an April 6 organizer.....

"These are fast steps to neutralize the movements and activists which are supporting the revolution or who are calling for the continuation of the revolution starting from this coming 25 January," said Eid, whose organization is called the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information.

Eid said raids last week against 17 pro-democracy and human rights groups were part of the trend....."

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