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Egypt: Lawyers Say Police Rounded Hundreds Over Protests

Associated Press

   CAIRO, EGYPT. - Egyptian rights lawyers say security forces have
   rounded up hundreds of people following small but rare anti-government
   protests.

   The protests broke out in several Egyptian cities including the
   capital, Cairo, over the weekend, calling for President Abdel-Fattah
   el-Sissi to step down.
   All protests were quickly broken up by police. But they marked a
   startling eruption of street unrest, which has been almost completely
   silenced the past years by draconian measures imposed under el-Sissi.
   

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