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Reda Mahrous, the mother of jailed Egyptian photographer Mahmoud Abdel Shakour Abou-Zeid, known as Shawkan, holds a photograph of her son, as her husband Abedel Shakour Abu Zeid looks on, at their home in the capital Cairo on August 10, 2016. Shawkan had been covering the police dispersal of an Islamist protest camp in Cairo when he was arrested and has been in prison ever since. Thousands of Islamists remain in prison in a wideranging crackdown that has extended to leftists and even journalists like Shawkan. / AFP / KHALED DESOUKI / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY HAITHAM EL-TABEI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)

Reda Mahrous, the mother of jailed Egyptian photographer Mahmoud Abdel Shakour Abou-Zeid, known as Shawkan, holds a photograph of her son, as her husband Abedel Shakour Abu Zeid looks on, at their home in the capital Cairo on August 10, 2016. Shawkan had been covering the police dispersal of an Islamist protest camp in Cairo when he was arrested and has been in prison ever since. Thousands of Islamists remain in prison in a wideranging crackdown that has extended to leftists and even journalists like Shawkan. / AFP / KHALED DESOUKI / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY HAITHAM EL-TABEI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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