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  • Egyptian police arrested four prominent women dissidents Wednesday after they demanded the release of prisoners over fear of a coronavirus outbreaks in jails, their families said. The four public figures -- Mona Seif, her mother Laila and aunt Ahdaf Soueif as well as Rabab al-Mahdi -- held a small demonstration in central Cairo. "We are in front of the cabinet building, asking for the state to take serious steps regarding coronavirus in prisons. As we know, at the best of times Egypt's prisons are clusters for disease," Mona Seif said in a live Facebook video before her phone was taken by police. Prominent human rights lawyer Khaled Ali said the activists were referred to the prosecution for questioning. A younger sister, Sanaa Seif, said she was prevented from seeing her relatives at a Cairo police station. AFP contacted the interior ministry to confirm details of their arrest but did not receive a response. PEN International condemned Ahdaf Soueif's arrest. Salil Tripathi, who is chair of the free speech organisation's Writers in Prison Committee, said in a tweet: "Jailing writers who speak truth to power is an authoritarian trick. Egypt must walk back from that path." Mona Seif is the sister of well-known blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who was imprisoned last September after rare, small-scale protests erupted demanding the toppling of President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi. She had been vocal on social media in recent weeks raising awareness about the dangers of contagion in prisons. Human rights groups have repeatedly criticised Egyptian prisons for overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. On Tuesday Laila Soueif, a Cairo university professor, wrote to Egypt's attorney general urging him to free prisoners. "The only way to prevent detention centres becoming hubs for spreading the pandemic and endangering the entire population of the country is to release as many prisoners as possible," she wrote. Ahdaf Soueif is a highly regarded novelist and Rabab al-Mahdi is a political science professor at the American University of Cairo. Human Rights Watch said earlier this week that an epidemiological "disaster" could be spared if authorities arranged for conditional releases of prisoners. Egypt has reported 196 COVID-19 cases and six deaths so far. Authorities have placed over 300 families under quarantine in a Nile Delta village this week, after the deaths there of a 72-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man, both of whom were Egyptian. ff/cm
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  • Egypt arrests activists demanding inmates' release over virus
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