{"id":576374,"date":"2020-11-22T04:14:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T04:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/11\/22\/egypt-in-the-news-on-22-november-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-11-22T04:14:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T04:14:56","slug":"egypt-in-the-news-on-22-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/11\/22\/egypt-in-the-news-on-22-november-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt in the News on 22 November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"tldr-story-08\" class=\"content-anchor\"><\/a> <strong>Human rights topped coverage of Egypt in the foreign press over the weekend<\/strong> following the arrest of Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) executive Gasser Abdel Razek just days <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/3dca1181-44b8-45fb-9762-57a6f61e7e32\">after authorities detained<\/a> two other senior staffers. 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