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September 15, 2014

Prominent Egyptian Activist Freed on Bail 
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In Egypt, one of the country's leading activists has been released on
bail as he challenges a lengthy jail term. Alaa Abd El-Fattah recently
launched a hunger strike to protest his third imprisonment since the
start of the 2011 revolution. Fattah was sentenced to 15 years for
challenging Egypt's anti-protest law. His father, the prominent human
rights attorney Ahmed Seif al-Islam Hamad, died while he was in prison
last month.

 

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