{"id":648022,"date":"2017-05-25T04:13:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T04:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/05\/25\/khaled-alis-arrest-undermined-the-government-and-boosted-his-popularity\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T04:13:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T04:13:47","slug":"khaled-alis-arrest-undermined-the-government-and-boosted-his-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/05\/25\/khaled-alis-arrest-undermined-the-government-and-boosted-his-popularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Khaled Ali\u2019s arrest undermined the government and boosted his popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Government: 0, Khaled Ali: 1.<\/strong> The arrest of human rights lawyer Khaled Ali only served to boost his popularity and undermine the government\u2019s steadiness, Fahmy Howeidy writes in a column penned for Al Shorouk<\/a>. Ali\u2019s arrest was on shaky legal grounds and is either in retaliation for his lawsuit against the government over the handover of Tiran and Sanafir islands or a political warning to him and other potential presidential candidates. Whatever the case may be, the move backfired against the state and is unpaid publicity for his presidential campaign, Howeidy writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Government: 0, Khaled Ali: 1. The arrest of human rights lawyer Khaled Ali only served to boost his popularity and undermine the government\u2019s steadiness, Fahmy Howeidy writes in a column penned for Al Shorouk. Ali\u2019s arrest was on shaky legal grounds and is either in retaliation for his lawsuit against the government over the handover […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9411],"tags":[72,9410],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-648022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-deadline","tag-enterpriseam","tag-on-deadline","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"ccab6454-15cb-4927-8211-f41e25601b80","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[648002],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nKhaled Ali\u2019s arrest undermined the government and boosted his popularity - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/05\/25\/khaled-alis-arrest-undermined-the-government-and-boosted-his-popularity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Khaled Ali\u2019s arrest undermined the government and boosted his popularity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Government: 0, Khaled Ali: 1. 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