What Makes Egyptian Blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah So Dangerous?

In prison again for the fourth time since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, his reach is only growing.

Open-internet and political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah's appearance in court this past Sunday wasn't his first--Abdel Fattah is considered one of the Egyptian security state's main antagonists, and as such, he's become a familiar fixture. In fact, Abdel Fattah has the unlucky distinction of having been arrested under each of the four iterations of power in Egypt following the overthrow of autocratic president Hosni Mubarak in 2011, who have all seen him, with his energetic online following, as an instigator of social unrest.

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