Egyptians rally in solidarity with hunger striking detainees

3/4/2016 6:49:44 PM

(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) >Several provinces of Egypt saw demonstrations on Friday in solidarity with hunger-striking political detainees being held in southern Cairo’s notorious Al-Aqrab Prison.

According to Anadolu Agency correspondents and eyewitnesses demonstrations were held in the provinces of Giza Damietta Fayoum Minya Beni Sueif Sharqiya Daqahlia and Menoufiya.

Protesters demanded the release of hunger-striking prisoners and decried the low standard of living in Egypt.

Many demonstrators shouted slogans against the Egyptian regime and held pictures of Mohamed Morsi Egypt’s first democratically elected president and a Muslim Brotherhood leader who was removed from office in a 2013 military coup.

On Thursday the Brotherhood-linked National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy called for a week of protests to show solidarity with hunger-striking prisoners.

Egypt has been dogged by political turmoil since mid-2013 when the military overthrew Morsi and launched a brutal crackdown on his supporters.

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