Egypt’s political prisoners
There are an estimated 5,000 political prisoners still in Egyptian prisons, detained under the country's "emergency law." The law has been in effect since the 1980s. Now, activists and protestors are calling for the law to be lifted and the political prisoners freed. Ben Gilbert reports from Cairo.
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