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It’s official: In Egypt, you can now get 15 years in jail for a tweet

By Elisa Massimino and Neil Hicks – The Washington Post In the six years since Abdel Fatah al-Sissi assumed the presidency in Egypt, the country has devolved into the deepest [...]

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 MEPs condemn Egypt’s Terrorist Court Circuit prison sentence against human rights defender Bahey el-Din Hassan
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MEPs condemn Egypt’s Terrorist Court Circuit prison sentence against human rights defender Bahey el-Din Hassan

Statement by Maria Arena, Chair of Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), Isabel Santos, Chair of the delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and Mounir Satouri, Foreign [...]

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 Egypt: Human rights defender Bahey el-Din Hassan handed outrageous 15-year prison sentence
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Egypt: Human rights defender Bahey el-Din Hassan handed outrageous 15-year prison sentence

By Amnesty International The Fifth Terrorism Circuit Court in Cairo today sentenced exiled Bahey el-Din Hassan, a prominent human rights defender, to 15 years in prison on fabricated charges [...]

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