Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Wednesday by a Cairo criminal court after serving nine months in jail, according to her sister, activist Mona Seif. Sanaa has been charged with spreading false news via her social media for the purposes of “stirring public opinion against state institutions” and “disturbing security and peace and disrupting the institutions of the state from their work.” سناء اتحكم عليها بسنة و٦ شهور Sanaa Seif has been sentenced to 1.5 years in prison #FreeSanaa — Mona Seif (@Monasosh) March 17, 2021 She was arrested last year following allegations of an attack on Sanaa and her family outside Tora prison; the family was waiting outside the Tora Prison for two days to receive a letter from Alaa Abdel Fattah, their brother, who remains imprisoned after he was detained in 2019. Mona Seif claims that a group of women assaulted and robbed her, her sister Sanaa and their mother, activist and scholar Laila Soueif. Mona also shared social media photos revealing the marks of the abuse and assault as evidence. On their way to report the incident, Sanaa was “abducted,” her…
