CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian government announced the release of 46 detainees and added a prominent human rights lawyer to its latest circular of pardons. A member of Egypt’s presidential pardon committee showed the government’s order to several photographs of the released lawyer, Haitham Mohamadein. , were shared online. Egypt has pardoned dozens of detainees in recent months as its human rights record is under foreign scrutiny ahead of the UN climate update summit in November. Egypt is one of the worst news hound jailers in the world. Activists involved in Egypt’s 2011 popular uprising remain in prison, most of them arrested under a draconian 2013 law banning all street protests.
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