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CAIRO An Egyptian prosecutor on Wednesday released on bail a human rights lawyer and possible presidential candidate, Khaled Ali, pending his trial later this month on charges of"offending public decency", his lawyer said. Ali, 45, was detained on Tuesday amid what some rights lawyers say is a wave of arrests of potential presidential candidates one year before the election. He is being sued by a private citizen over a photograph in which he appears to make a rude hand gesture on the steps of a Cairo court house, according to his lawyer Malek Adly. Ali denies the authenticity of the photo."This is all connected to his human rights and political work," said Adly, a member of Ali's Bread and Freedom Party. (Reuters)
