Following the rare protest that was spotted near Egypt’s iconic Tahrir Square on Friday, a number of reports from rights groups and national media have claimed that Egyptian authorities have arrested several individuals. Popular TV host Amr Adeeb presented videos of seven individuals arrested, showing their passports and confessions during an episode of his Talk Show “Al Hekaya”. He also claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood used of a number of them to monitor and support the demonstrations in Egypt. The group included two Turkish nationals, two Jordanians, a Palestinian, and a Dutch national, who claimed in the video that he was arrested after flying his drone from the rooftop of his hotel near Tahrir square. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWqvZieZ4xs In other reports, the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights noted that there are 1,915 detained, including academics, political party leaders and lawyers. https://twitter.com/ecesr/status/1177017029204807681 Among those arrested according to local reports are political scientists Hassan Nafaa and Hazem Hosny and Khaled Dawoud, a journalist and former head of al-Dustour party. They are being investigated and accused for the alleged use of social media to spread false news, undermining national security, joining a banned…
