It looks like the police “visibility” campaign succeeded in limiting the scope of today’s strikes. They were deployed in large numbers ahead of the protests, according to this BBC report.
Al Arabiya reiterates that the strike “fizzled out”:
Dozens of activists, students and members of the banned Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood were arrested, though there were no reports of mass arrests. A police crackdown over the weekend resulted in at least 30 arrests, according to the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information.
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