Activists lash out against state security over prisoners of conscience

CAIRO: Lawyers and activists condemned the detention of 10 men who they say are prisoners of conscience during a seminar held Thursday at the Journalists’ Syndicate.The seminar was followed by a protest on the steps of the Syndicate during which demonstrators called for the release of the detainees.Twenty-two-year-old Mohamed Adel, a blogger and IT student was bundled into a car by roughly 30 plain-clothed men while in a Downtown Cairo coffee shop last month on Nov. 20, according to an...