Prominent Egypt youth activist released

AFP

Egyptian authorities on Saturday released the founder of one of the key youth movements behind the 2011 uprising after he was held overnight, a judicial source told AFP. Ahmed Maher of the April 6 movement was arrested on Friday in Cairo airport where he had landed from Vienna. “He has been released”.

From Wikipedia:

one of the co-founders of the April 6 Youth Movement, and a prominent participant in the anti-Mubarak demonstrations in Egypt in 2011.

He is a civil engineer who works for a construction firm in New Cairo.

Maher attempted to organize several demonstrations after April 2008. However, his efforts were hindered both by interference from Egyptian security forces and internal divisions within the April 6 movement. In June 2010, Maher helped organize a protest against the killing, by Egyptian police, of Khaled Said, a young resident of Alexandria. Maher has expressed support for the potential bid of Mohamed ElBaradei for the Egyptian presidency.