Together with other family members, he has been repeatedly targeted by the administration of President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi.He is currently three-and-a-half years into his latest five-year sentence, handed down following a trial labelled a “ sham ” by rights groups.... In the past Egypt and President Sisi himself, have repeatedly denied it has any political prisoners, or that it is crushing freedoms.... They have vehemently rejected criticism of its rights record as anti-government propaganda.