Egyptian authorities released two activists and a journalist Sunday after months in pre-trial detention, officials and lawyers said, amid concern by President Joe Biden’s administration over the arrest and harassment of government critics.... She was a co-founder of the April 6 movement that played a crucial role in the 2011 pro-democracy uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak Abdel-Fattah was arrested in October 2019 in a city west of Cairo, during a crackdown that followed smal

CAIRO, Aug 14( Reuters)-Rights groups called on Monday for accountability over the deaths of hundreds of people killed in a single day 10 years ago when Egyptian security forces dispersed a protest against the ouster of the country's first democratically elected president. The clearing of the Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in in Cairo on Aug.... 14, 2013 marked the escalation of a crackdown against supporters of overthrown Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Mursi.... Individual responsibility must be ass

Read ourprivacy notice Thanks for signing up to theInside Washington email{{# verifyErrors}}{{ message}}{{/ verifyErrors}}{{^ verifyErrors}} Something went wrong.... Also pardoned was Mohammed el-Baker, a rights lawyer, who was arrested in September 2019, the agency reported.... El-Baker was sentenced to four years in prison late in 2021 over charges of disseminating false news, misuse of social media and joining a terrorist group. The report said the two were among a group pardoned on Wednesd

Abdel Fattah is one of several members of his family who have faced prison time.... His younger sister, Sanaa Seif, was convicted in March of spreading false news, misusing social media and insulting an on-duty police officer.... The latter protests came amid a wave of demonstrations against autocratic governments across the Arab world.In the ensuing years, Abdel Fattah was charged with organizing an unlawful protest and was ultimately sentenced to five years in prison....

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