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Egypt’s glaring rights violations once again in global spotlight

The Egyptian government is being condemned for its new, and renewed, human rights abuses.
Riot police walk in front of graffiti representing anti-military power and Egypt's unrest, which reads "Glory to the unknown", along Mohamed Mahmoud Street during the third anniversary of violent and deadly clashes near Tahrir Square in Cairo November 19, 2014. Egyptian police arrested 25 individuals after four hundred protestors staged a march through downtown Cairo on the anniversary of deadly clashes with security forces three years ago, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.  REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dals
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An Egyptian court will resume its deliberations May 23 in a long-running, on again, off again human rights case that has placed the country at the center of an international controversy — again.

The controversy revolves around a case that began in 2011 and supposedly ended in 2013, but that Egypt recently resurrected, apparently in response to being roundly criticized by world leaders for new, high-profile human rights violations.

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