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| Egypt rights campaigner Mina Thabet to be released as court rejects prosecution’s appeal |
| 2016-06-21 |
| [Al Ahram] A Cairo court rejected on Monday an appeal by Egypt’s prosecution on rights campaigner Mina Thabet’s release order, confirming that he will be let out of jail on EGP 10,000 bail. The activist is being investigated, among other charges, on accusations of inciting protests against redrawing Egyptian-Saudi maritime borders, inciting violence to overthrow the regime and change the constitution, inciting attacks on cop shoppes, joining a terrorist organization and disturbing social peace. Thabet, who is the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms' minorities and marginalised groups programme director, was locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on 21 May from his home during a raid by plainclothes police, according to the NGO. The documents found with Thabet include papers on the socialist political party Bread and Freedom, documents about minority rights relating to international law, the civil and political rights of minorities, in addition to a poster that says that the islands of Tiran and Sanafir, that lie in the Red Sea off Sinai, are Egyptian. |
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