Egypt banned all sales of yellow safety vests from fear people might wear them while protesting the regime.
One human rights lawyer already detained for picture in a yellow vest, accused of belonging to a terrorist organization and spreading "fake news" says Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedom.
"The yellow vests have meaning for the French but has nothing to do with our problems. We try to struggle for completely different things – like freedom.
I think it is very strange and I am amazed over this. Considering there is no activism left in Egypt.
It must be from fear authorities do this, but what they are afraid of I don't know", said human rights activist Esraa Abdel Fattah Ahmed to SVT News.
Merchants ordered by police to not sell yellow safety vests and orders must be approved by police, reported AP.
When asked why, police said were just following orders.
-SVT
@danishcookies Oh, absolutely.
My friends that I "met" online during the original liberatory #jan25 revolution told me it is now worse than during the Mubarak dictatorship,
but then as now, the "world leaders" prefer Egypt under dictatorship and with economic exploitation imposed by IMF "loans" forcing neo-liberal policies, so they sell arms and surveillance equipment to the regime which is e.g. among the world's wost against Free Press (there is only one actual free newspaper left).