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The return of Egypt's police state

Independent.co.uk
It was late at night when the gang of armed police stormed into the home of Alaa Abd El Fattah, one of Egypt's most prominent activists.
The men, some of whom wore masks, reportedly beat Fattah before handcuffing him and whisking him away. His wife said she was slapped around the face after asking to see an arrest warrant.
The raid, which took place at about 10:00pm on Thursday, was a boot-through-the-door operation with all the hallmarks of
totalitarian security state. Fattah's crime? Organising a peaceful demonstration through the streets of central Gairo earlier this week. This is Egypt three years into the Arab Spring: a land where even the simple act of spontaneous protest has become illegal.
For some of the secular activists who supported the popular coup against the Muslim Brotherhood over the summer, the fate of Alaa Abd El Fattah - along with numerous other protesters and critics of the military-backed government - has led to a great deal of soul-searching about the direction in which their revolution is now heading. Many enthusiastically welcomed the putsch that ousted Mohamed Morsi, seeing the generals as the only way to rid Egypt of an Islamist government which had become hugely unpopular and stood accused of numerous rights abuses. But five months on, that initial support has morphed into deep wariness among some of those who backed the army's intervention.
'The thing which brought the secular politicians and the military together was the Muslim Brotherhood," said Dr Khalil al-Anani, a Washington-based expert on Egyptian affairs. But some are now regretting it.
Much of the recent disquiet surrounds the passing of a new law which criminalises unplanned street protests. The legislation -drafted by the military-backed interim government and rubber-stamped last week - requires protesters to seek police consent if they intend to hold a political demonstration involving more than 10 people.
In addition, the interior ministry will have sweeping powers to cancel demonstrations and designate "protest-free" zones around public institutions.
Ahmed al-Hawary, an activist who helped formed the so-called June 30 Front in opposition to Mr Morsi, told The Independent that Egypt was now witnessing the "last breath of the fragile coalition" between pro-democracy secularists and the military. "It was an extremely fragile alliance," he said. "We knew the risks. We knew there was a possibility of going where we are heading now."
However, he added that "nobody regrets" the toppling of the Muslim Brotherhood, and that supporting the military's intervention was "our only choice" to get rid of what he called the group's brand of Islamic "fascism".