Egypt: Court Rejects 12 Organisations' Request to Release Hunger-Striking Detainee

5 November 2014

Cairo — The Cairo Criminal Court rejected on Wednesday a request by 12 committees and civil society organisations to release hunger-striking Egyptian-American journalist Mohamed Soltan.

Soltan was arrested from his home on August 27, last year after the deadly dispersal of two camps set up in support of former President Mohamed Mursi following his ouster in July 2013. He has been on hunger-strike since January in protest over his detention, maintaining the longest hunger strike among those detained.

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