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Egypt: Halt Crackdown On People Voicing Concerns Over Economic Crisis

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The Egyptian authorities have intensified their crackdown against protesters, striking workers and people voicing criticism online over the authorities' handling of the economic crisis, said Amnesty International today.

The Egypt ian authorities have intensified their crackdown against protesters, striking workers and people voicing criticism online over the authorities' handling of the economic crisis, said Amnesty International today.

"Egyptian authorities must respect the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly and immediately release all those arbitrarily detained solely for the exercise of these rights." One employee in a private business who was arrested on 14 March from his workplace in Giza told SSSP prosecutors that he was only arrested because he posted a video on Facebook complaining about the high cost of his mother's medication.

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