A prominent blogger and pro-democracy activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, has been jailed by an Egyptian Court for five years after his retrial for violating protest law on Monday. He was previously given a 15-year jail term in the case over his alleged role in a 2013 protest. The activist came into the limelight and gained…
Freed Al Jazeera Journalists Reunite with Families
After being held in prisons custody in Egypt for 411 days, Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy, both journalists working with Al Jazeera, an international television network, have regained their freedom and reunited with members of their families. The journalists were released on Friday, a day after an Egyptian court granted them bail and slated the…