Cairo — The defense of hunger striking detainee Mohamed Soltan called on the judge overseeing the trial to recuse himself on Monday, yet the request was turned down.
Soltan was arrested from his home on August 27, 2013 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 last January in protest over his detention, maintaining the longest hunger strike among those detained.
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