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| Egypt Court Sentences 23 Pro-Democracy Protesters to 3 Years | |
| 2014-10-27 | |
The rights activists include Yara Sallam and Sanaa Seif, described by The Cairo court also ordered each of the 23 defendants to pay a fine of 10,000 Egyptian pounds (about $1,390). Some of the activists had supported the military's overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July last year which unleashed a deadly crackdown on his Islamist supporters. They had since turned on the new authorities as it extended a crackdown on all protests. The verdict, one of several against secular-leaning activists in recent months, may be appealed. The defendants were accused of holding an illegal protest on June 21 calling for the release of detainees and the annulment of a law that bans all but police-sanctioned demonstrations. "The ruling is political, it has no legal grounding," alleged Ahmed Ezzat, one of the defense lawyers, after judge Abdelrahman al-Zawary pronounced his verdict. | |
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| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-10-27 19:47 |
| #2 Yea well, so sorry and all that---it's not a game. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-27 12:52 |
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| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-10-27 09:05 |