Over the past week, state-run local media launched a campaign attacking the protests, depicting them as part of alleged plots against Egypt's stability.
Egyptian authorities lifted Saturday some tight security measures in the capital, Cairo, a day after they sealed off the main square and downtown thoroughfares to thwart a possible protest against the country's president.
Security personnel were visible in Cairo's main streets and squares on Saturday but did not prevent normal traffic as in the past days. Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the pro-democracy uprising in 2011 that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, was reopened, as were subway stations in the area that had been closed the day before.
The lawyers said prosecutors ordered those who were questioned to remain in custody for 15 days pending investigations into claims they took part in activities of an outlawed group and disseminating false news. In Sudan, at least two dozen people protested in front of the Egyptian embassy in the capital, Khartoum, calling for the release of a Sudanese youngster who was arrested last week in Cairo.
The protests emerged from an online campaign led by an Egyptian businessman living in self-imposed exile who has presented himself as a whistleblower against corruption.
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