- An Egyptian court jails researcher Ahmed Samir for three years for “spreading false news”.
- Case of British-Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah raised at meeting with UK minister.
- Rights groups say there are currently about 60,000 political prisoners in custody in Egypt.
An Egyptian court sentenced researcher Ahmed Samir to three years in prison on Monday for “spreading false news.” according to rights groups.
Samir, a postgraduate student at the Central European University in Vienna, was detained in Egypt in February 2021 while on a family visit.
The researcher had his sentence commuted in a retrial after he had been sentenced to four years in prison in June 2021 for “spreading false news on social media” — an accusation frequently levelled at dissidents in Egypt.
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