CAIRO,Aug 1, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Egyptian opposition figure Yahya Abdelhadi was detained for questioning Wednesday, according to prominent lawyer Khaled Ali, two years after he received a presidential pardon. Ali was informed by authorities late on Wednesday that Abdelhadi had been taken to state security prosecution headquarters, "to begin questioning", he wrote on Facebook. The lawyer had earlier posted that the veteran opposition figure was forcibly taken from a car on a busy Cairo street "by a number of individuals in civilian clothing" who "kidnapped him to an unknown location". A critic of Sisi's administration, Abdelhadi had been a key figure in the Kefaya (Enough) movement that helped topple longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Human rights activists estimate Cairo still holds tens of thousands of political prisoners, many of them in brutal conditions.
