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Article: As Egypt cracks down, charges of wide abuse.(WORLD)(police brutality increases as govenment controls activism)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 10, 2007
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Byline: Dan Murphy Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Cairo -- The regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is in the midst of one of its largest crackdowns against public dissent in a decade. Seven journalists have been given prison sentences in recent weeks; more than a thousand activists of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most popular political opposition, languish in jail; and labor organizers involved in a wave of strikes at government-owned factories have been detained. On Sunday, fighting between rival Bedouin clans in the Sinai Peninsula quickly spiraled into a riot targeting the police and President Mubarak's National Democratic Party ...