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Final Verdict on Prominent Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah Confirming 5 Years Imprisonment in ‘Shura Council’ Events

November 8, 2017
Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah speaks in front of a judge at a court during his trial in Cairo, November 11, 2014. REUTERS/Al Youm Al Saabi Newspaper

The Court of Cassation has issued, on Wednesday, a final verdict ruling that Egyptian Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah stays in prison until the end of the 5-year imprisonment sentence in ‘Shura Council’ events, altering wording. The wording changed from Segn – an imprisonment equal to 12 months to Habs – an imprisonment period equal to 9 months. Lawyer Mokhtar Mounir told Mada Masr that this definition was not applied with political prisoners such as Ahmed Maher and Mohammed Adel, who serve a term of imprisonment of 12 months. Abdel Fattah served three and a half years; he is to spend 1.5 years in addition to another 5 years of probation and a fine worth of EGP 100,000. All the defendants in this case, except Alaa Abd al-Fattah, received a presidential pardon from which they were released. Abdel Fattah is charged with organizing a demonstration without a license before the Shura Council in November 2013, provoking riots, assaulting police officers, blocking roads, gathering public property. The ’25 Days’ to #FreeAlaa is a campaign that has been launched to call for the urgent release of Abdel Fattah; the first session of the appeal hearing was on 19 October. Abdel Fattah is also facing allegations…


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