Icon of Egypt's 2011 revolt sentenced to 15 years in jail

Thursday, June 12, 2014

CAIRO -- An Egyptian court on Wednesday convicted a prominent activist from the country's 2011 uprising of organizing an unauthorized protest and assaulting a policeman, sentencing him to 15 years in prison, in the latest blow to the liberal pro-democracy movement at a time of rapidly eroding freedoms.

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