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March 29, 2019

Egyptian Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah Freed After 5 Years in Prison
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In news from Egypt, pro-democracy activist and blogger Alaa Abd
El-Fattah was freed from prison after five years. El-Fattah was jailed
on charges of organizing a protest in 2013 in violation of a
newly-enacted law that effectively bans all protests in Egypt. He still
faces five years' probation, which means he will have to spend 12 hours
in a police station every night.


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