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CAIRO: Mahienour El-Massry “was arrested as soon as she left the State Security Prosecutor´s headquarters in Cairo, where she had attended the investigations as a lawyer for several of those arrested during the demonstrations”, Tarek al-Awadi said. Hundreds of Egyptians took to the streets in Cairo and several other cities across the country on Friday to call for Sisi´s departure. …

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