This blog was originally published on the Huffington Post.  How low will the Egyptian government go in silencing the voices of its citizens and its human rights activists? Last week, it went even lower than thought possible. In what amounted to a judicial masquerade, the Egyptian government suddenly decided to prosecute one of the world’s most active and effective human rights defenders, Azza Soliman, for denouncing police brutality. Azza is a cofounder of the Cairo-based Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA), which provides free legal, social, and psychological services to women and marginalized groups and works to protect their rights. Here are the facts: On January 24, 2015, in a peaceful demonstration organized by the Socialist People’s Alliance Party, about 30 people, flowers in hand,