Khaled Ali, a prominent Egyptian opposition leader was on Tuesday detained for “offending public decency” amid what rights lawyers say is a wave of arrests of potential presidential candidates one year before an election.

Ali, a human rights lawyer who contested in Egypt’s 2012 presidential election, was questioned by the prosecution and ordered detained for 24 hours pending investigations, lawyer Gamal Eid told Ahram Online.

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