#shaimaa al-sabbagh
An Egyptian court has reversed the 15-year jail sentence handed down to a policeman accused of killing activist Shaimaa al-Sabbagh in January 2015. The Appeals Court accepted the appeal of First Lieutenant Yaseen Hatem, who had been charged with killing the activist, and ordered a retrial, reported Al-Ahram. Yaseen's defense lawyer, Farid Al-Deeb, had argued that the death occurred in "exceptional circumstances" and that if the policeman had intended to murder, then there would have been dozens of victims. The…
