El Watan’s Mahmoud Khalil is happy to declare a victory for freedom of expression with the imminent in the release of Islamic scholar Islam El Beheiry and fiction writer Ahmed Naji. However, he finds it unjust that El Sisi’s recently formed committee on young detainees is unlikely to set free activists including Alaa Abdel Fattah, Ahmed Doma, or Ahmed Maher, who were arrested in protest cases, or others accused of vandalism or assault.

El Watan’s Khaled Okasha believes that just because we say nothing happened in 11/11, doesn’t mean there’s a void in opposition; we can’t deny that there are people out there that are angry, whatever the headlines say.