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Egyptian photographer Mahmoud Abdel Shakour, known as Shawkan, gestures from inside a soundproof glass dock, during his trial in the capital Cairo on August 9, 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)

Egyptian photographer Mahmoud Abdel Shakour, known as Shawkan, gestures from inside a soundproof glass dock, during his trial in the capital Cairo on August 9, 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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