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Concern over arrest and detention of possible prisoner of conscience

Posted: 29 January 1999

Amnesty International has written to the Egyptian government to express its concern over the arrest and detention, earlier this month, of 20 Egyptian professionals for their alleged affiliation with the banned Muslim Brothers organisation.