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Egypt: Sisi Pardons Several Prisoners including Ahmed Douma |
2023-08-20 |
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi has pardoned a ![]() Douma was sentenced in 2019 to 15 years in prison for rioting and attacking security forces. In delivering his verdict at the time, the judge said Douma was part of a crowd that broke into parliament and damaged part of it. Last month, authorities also freed Egyptian rights researcher Patrick Zaki and lawyer Mohammed el-Baqer after they were pardoned by al-Sisi. Since late 2021 Egypt has taken a number of steps which it says are aimed at addressing human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... , including amnesties for some prominent prisoners. |
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