This morning in the foreign press: Novelist Ahdaf Soueif was one of three women arrested after they staged a demonstration to demand the government release prisoners amid fears of a covid-19 outbreak in the country’s prisons, the Guardian reports. The prosecutor ordered their release late last night, local media reported. Three of them were related to Alaa Abdel Fattah, the longtime, high-profile activist who was detained again last year, not long after having been released from prison.

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