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Egypt: Police detain an Egyptian graduate student and human rights advocate

Ahmed Samir Santawy, an Egyptian graduate student at a university in Austria, was recently forcibly disappeared and interrogated and later given 15 days in arbitrary detention. Prior to his detention, he was on a visit to Egypt visiting family
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