Media News - Friday, July 25, 2008
Egypt rounding up “Internet youth”
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said on Thursday that the Egyptian security forces had arrested 14 Internet activists known as the "6th of April Youth." The group had been travelling to Alexandria when they were detained by police. They have yet to appear before a judge and charges have not yet been filed against any of them, ANHRI said. Ahmed Maher, a leading member of the group, was arrested by security forces "while walking in the Al Raml station of Alexandria," the pan-Arabic human rights network reported. ANHRI said that the government was targeting as many as 35 young men and women belonging to the group who were attending a planned trip by the group. Another member of the group, Mahenor Al Masri, in a phone call to ANHRI said "the officers had beaten them..." and seized the list of participants on the trip which numbered 50 of young men and women.
(Africa en Ligne)
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