Rights group: Egypt arrested 10 reporters since virus hit

The Egyptian government has arrested at least 10 journalists since the coronavirus was detected in the country, a local human rights group said, accusing authorities of seizing on the pandemic to accelerate a long-running campaign against dissent. The wave of detentions comes even as authorities across the world release inmates in a scramble to curb the spread of the virus in prisons, where social distancing and other preventative measures prove impossible, said the Arab Network for Human Rights Information. The government has not released political detainees to prevent an outbreak, and instead put an end to family visits in prisons as a precautionary step.

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