Egypt : Shawkan freed from prison but must spend nights in a police cell

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) hails today’s release of Mahmoud Abou Zeid, the Egyptian photojournalist also known as Shawkan, after more than five and a half years in prison, but deplores that the fact that he is still only half free because he is supposed to spend 12 out of every 24 hours in a police station for the next five years. Mahmoud Abou Zeid, also known as Shawkan had been held ever since 14 August 2013, when he was arrested as he

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