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This morning in the foreign press: <\/strong>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\u2019s prisons, the Guardian reports<\/a>. The prosecutor ordered their release late last night, local media reported<\/a>. Three of them were related to Alaa Abdel Fattah, the longtime, high-profile activist who was detained<\/a> again last year, not long after having been released from prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s prisons, the Guardian reports. The prosecutor ordered their release late last night, local media reported. 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