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Egyptian opposition figure Yahya Abdelhadi has been questioned and detained on terrorism charges, prominent lawyer Khaled Ali said Thursday, according to AFP, two years after the dissident received a presidential pardon.
Ali said on Facebook that he was informed by authorities late Wednesday
that Abdelhadi had been taken to state security prosecution headquarters,
adding in a subsequent post that the "interrogation has now ended" and that
Abdelhadi had been transferred to prison.
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