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El-Kashef was allegedly arrested after calling for protests in the wake of the Ramses train crash, the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2019\/03\/13\/transgender-woman-subjected-to-forced-examination-while-in-custody-says-rights-group\/\">said at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have released transgender woman and rights activist Malak El-Kashef, who was arrested in March on charges of \u201cbelonging to a terror group,\u201d reports Al Shorouk. 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