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failure to protect women. She also criticised the government for deteriorating human rights, socioeconomic conditions and public services. Amnesty
International examined the 12-minute video and found that it does not contain incitement of any form, and as such is protected by freedom of expression. On 11 May 2018, around 2:30 am, Egyptian security forces raided Amal Fathy and Mohamed Lotfy's home in Maadi in
278:(US$ 1,120) to temporarily suspend the sentence and a fine of 10,000 EGP (US$ 560). On September 30, 2018, she appealed the case and paid the bail. The first appeal hearing was scheduled on October 25, 2018. Egyptian women are particularly vulnerable to violence in the public space, with 99.3% of women and girls reporting some form of sexual harassment and assault in their lifetime.
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International-Italy. Yet, under the persistence of the legal teams in Egypt and Italy, the
Egyptian General Attorney accepted to hand thousands of documents of investigations to ECRF lawyers and to his Italian lawyer in Genoa. These were translated in Italian and analysed by Regeni's family legal teams.
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On 29 September 2018, Amal Fathy, who had already spent 141 days in prison after being arbitrarily arrested for posting the
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continues, serious efforts were put in place to return to "normality" and give a fake impression to the
Italians, Egyptians and the world that the case is closed and dead. The Italian ambassador was sent back to Egypt in September 2017 against every human rights Organisation call, including Amnesty
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recalled Italy's ambassador to Cairo protesting the lack of progress in the investigation by
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