Egypt sentences blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah to five years in prison
Lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer and blogger Mohamed “Oxygen” Ibrahim were also each sentenced to four years in the same case for spreading false news and undermining state security.
A court in Egypt sentenced three leading human rights activists to prison on Monday for spreading false news and undermining state security.
A state security court in Cairo handed a five-year prison term to activist and software developer Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who was a leading figure in the 2011 uprising that overthrew Egypt’s longtime President Hosni Mubarak.
"The judge was too cowardly to even inform us," Abdel-Fattah’s sister Mona Seif tweeted on Monday.
Lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer and blogger Mohamed “Oxygen” Ibrahim were each sentenced to four years on the same charges.
