Cairo, Jan 9, 2019 – A leading figure in Egypt’s 2011 revolution [see profile here] was handed 15 years in prison on Wednesday after a retrial, a judicial source told AFP. Ahmed Douma was arrested in 2013 on charges of clashing with security forces in Cairo two years earlier, and received a 25-year prison sentence in 2015. Douma was a leading activist in the 2011 revolt that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak, who was succeeded by Islamist Mohamed Morsi. The 2011 revolt saw hundreds of thousands of protesters call for “bread, freedom and social justice” and rally against a regime seen as corrupt anddictatorial. In an interview with American network CBS aired this week, the president said Egypt has no political prisoners.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 09, 2019 19:52 UTC