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Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- As Egypt marked the third anniversary of the January 25 revolution, many of the activists associated with it were behind bars, awaiting trial, or facing a vilification campaign that turned heroes into traitors. Meanwhile, the police whose brutal force stoked their anger three years ago vowed to protect the weekend celebrations. Wael Ghonim, the Google executive behind the Facebook page that helped mobilize support for the mass demonstrations in 2011, is living in self-imposed exile in the UAE. "[I took] the decision to stay away since Egypt doesn't welcome people like me anymore," he wrote in a letter published on his Facebook page on January 7, breaking six months of silence since the military removed President Mohamed Morsy from power in July last year.

The organization's latest report on
Egypt specifically highlighted stifling restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly and the use of the judiciary as a "tool of repression."