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29 Mar 2019, 1:13 pm by Patrick Eckerd
The post Prominent Egypt rights activist Alaa Abdel Fattah released from prison appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. [read post]
  The post Egypt court sentences activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to five years in prison appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
29 Sep 2021, 1:59 pm by Karen Gullo
. - Alaa Abdel Fattah,  November 7, 2019, at State Security Prosecution EFF is profoundly concerned about our friend, Egyptian blogger, coder, and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, who has been jailed for more than two years at a maximum-security prison in Tora, 12 miles south of Cairo. [read post]
15 Sep 2014, 2:25 pm by Jillian York
In addition to Abd El Fattah, Mohamed Abdel-Rahman aka Noubi and Wael Metwally were also released on bail. [read post]
15 Sep 2014, 10:31 am by Nicholas Tomsho
[JURIST] Prominent Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah [Twitter feed; in Arabic], was released on bail Monday as he faces retrial for organizing an unauthorized protest. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 6:58 am by William Helbling
[JURIST] An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah [Twitter feed; in Arabic] to five years in prison in a retrial on charges stemming from the 2011 uprising. [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 5:00 am by Dominic Yobbi
Abdel Fattah, who was released on bail [JURIST report] in March, was charged along with 23 other co-defendants for a... [read post]
10 Feb 2022, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
  According to AP:President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi picked the 65-year-old Fahmy from among the court’s five oldest of 15 sitting judges, as is prescribed by law. [read post]
27 Oct 2014, 9:12 am by Alison Sacriponte
Abdel-Fattah was convicted [JURIST report] in June for organizing an unauthorized demonstration and assaulting a police officer in November 2013. [read post]
24 Mar 2014, 9:25 am by Benjamin Minegar
[JURIST] A Cairo court on Sunday ordered the release on bail of blogger and activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, who was imprisoned by Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in October 2011 for violating Egypt's controversial protest law and refusing to answer prosecutors' questions. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 3:51 pm by Jillian York
One of defense lawyers for the group, Mohamed Abdel Aziz told reporters that their conviction is the most severe known under the country's new Protest Law. [read post]
27 Feb 2015, 8:20 am by Alison Sacriponte
According to Interior Ministry spokesperson Abdel-Fattah Osman, the slain lawyer, Karim Mohammed, was detained after joining an Islamist demonstration on Monday in el-Matariya district, an area... [read post]
14 May 2008, 12:01 pm
Mind you, Abdel-Fattah herself went through the same issues growing up, so the warmth of the novel obviously comes from real experiences. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 12:09 pm by Media Law Prof
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi pardoned Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed today, nearly two years after they and fellow al-Jazeera reporter Peter Greste were convicted and sentenced to three years in prison for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood among other crimes.... [read post]
28 Oct 2015, 4:35 am by Jillian York
While many others involved in the protest were pardoned after serving their first year, Alaa, along with Ahmed Abdel Rahman, has remained imprisoned. [read post]
4 Jan 2022, 10:37 am by Karen Gullo
At least 48 human rights defenders, activists, and opposition politicians in pre-trial detention for months and years were referred to the emergency courts for trial just before Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi lifted the state of emergency in October, Human Rights Watch reported. [read post]
22 Mar 2015, 10:07 am by Emelina Perez
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] called on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi [BBC profile] Sunday to reject amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure that would interfere [HRW report] with the rights of defense lawyers to call witnesses during trials. [read post]
14 Nov 2011, 11:30 am by Jerry Votava
" The blogger, Alaa Abdel Fattah, was imprisoned [JURIST report] by Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) [NYT backgrounder] at the end of October after refusing to answer prosecutors' questions because he thought that it was a conflict of interest to the military... [read post]
30 May 2017, 1:33 pm by Meena Ansari
[JURIST] Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi [BBC backgrounder] signed [Mada Masr report] a controversial NGO law that was approved by the Parliament in November. [read post]