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A woman burns a portrait of ousted President Mohamed Mursi at the funeral of Egyptian public prosecutor Hisham Barakat, on the second anniversary of the June 30 protests, in Cairo, Egypt, June 30, 2015.

Five years of Sisi’s crackdown has left ‘no form of opposition’ in Egypt

June 28, 2018Conflict & Justice

Egypt’s “second revolution” unleashed a fierce crackdown which is showing no signs of slowing down. Here’s now it happened.

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