Egypt - “Shawkan's detention is illegal”

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Mahmoud Abu Zeid, a photojournalist known as “Shawkan” who has been held illegally pending trial for more than two years and whose trial is finally due to begin tomorrow in Cairo. Zeid was arrested on 14 August 2013 while providing the Demotix and Corbis agencies with coverage of clashes in Cairo's Rabiaa Al-Awadiya Square between the security forces and ousted President Mohamed Morsi's supporters. Held in disturbing (...)

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