Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's state is on a mission. It wants the five-year anniversary of the Jan. 25 Egyptian revolution to pass without event. It wants to demonstrate, once again, that everything is fine and completely under control. As the date approached, it frantically
arrested activists,
reinforced Tahrir Square and even, in yet another surreal scene,
broke into random people's homes to check their Facebook posts.
The lengths to which the regime is going only
reveals sheer fear. The state is frantically trying to suppress a movement it claims to have already suppressed.
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