Egyptian student arrested carrying copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four

Newspaper suggests undergraduate was held for possession of Orwell book but police say arrest was for filming security forces

Orwellian fiction and reality appeared to blur into one on Sunday when reports suggested that an Egyptian undergraduate had been arrested for possessing a copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Al-Masry al-Youm, Egypts leading private broadsheet, said a student identified only as Mohamed T had been caught in possession of the book at Cairo University, where a year-long wave of anti-government protests has seen several students killed by police, dozens expelled and hundreds sent to jail.

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