Members of medical team walk in front of the Institute of Research for Tropical Medicine amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Cairo, in Egypt May 26, 2020. REUTERS/Staff
CAIRO (Reuters) - At dusk on April 10, police entered an apartment in Qalyubia province, north of Cairo, and arrested ophthalmologist Hany Bakr.
The reason, his lawyer Aisha Nabil said, was an April 4 Facebook post in which he criticised Egypt for sending medical masks to China and Italy when he could not source them for his own practice.
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