Egyptian police have arrested economist Abdel Khalik Farouk after the publication of his book in which he is critically analysing the country’s economic and social crises, the author’s wife and a lawyer said.<\/p>\n
Farouk’s detention on Sunday came days after local media reported that copies of his book – titled, Is\u00a0Egypt<\/a>\u00a0really a poor country? – were seized by authorities from a publisher.<\/p>\n Farouq’s wife told the Reuters news agency that three policemen who came to their home said the arrest was in connection with the book.<\/p>\n She was later allowed to deliver food, medicine and clothes to him at a local police station, she said.<\/p>\n “He was officially arrested and will be presented to the state security prosecutor tomorrow because of this book,” the AFP news agency cited Gamal Eid, a lawyer, as saying.<\/p>\n According to Eid, who heads the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, the prosecutor would specify the main charges against Farouk on Monday.<\/p>\n Since President\u00a0Abdel Fattah el-Sisi<\/a>\u00a0came to power in 2014,\u00a0human rights<\/a>\u00a0groups have accused Egyptian authorities of muzzling all dissent.<\/p>\n The authorities say they aim to fight against terrorism and the “spreading of false information”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Egyptian police have arrested economist Abdel Khalik Farouk after the publication of his book in which he is critically analysing the country’s economic and social crises, the author’s wife and a lawyer said. Farouk’s detention on Sunday came days after local media reported that copies of his book – titled, Is\u00a0Egypt\u00a0really a poor country? – were seized by authorities from… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-https-www-aljazeera-com-news-2018-10-egypt-arrests-economist-abdel-khalik-farouk-critical-book-181022053722358-html"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}