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April 12, 2022

Egyptian Economist Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances After Forcible Disappearance
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In news from Egypt, an economic researcher has died in custody after
being forcibly disappeared in February. Ayman Hadhoud died in early
March, but his family only learned of his death this weekend when they
were asked to collect his body from a psychiatric hospital in Cairo.
Hadhoud helped found the liberal Reform and Development Party in Egypt.
On Monday, Hadhoud's brother was summoned for questioning.

Meanwhile, the imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah has
become a British citizen in a bid to increase pressure on authorities to
release him. The prominent human rights activist has spent most of the
past decade locked up.


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