Human
rights lawyer and two others have been sentenced to
15 months in jail on trumped-up charges. Mahienour El-Massry is a
prisoner of conscience detained solely for exercising her right to
peaceful expression and assembly. The three are in prison, but will
appeal.
Human rights lawyer Mahienour El-Massry, journalist Youssef Shaaban and activist Loay El-Kahwagi were
sentenced to 15 months in prison on 31 May by El-Raml Appeal
Misdemeanour Court in the city of Alexandria. The ruling can be
appealed, but their lawyer has told Amnesty International that the court
has not yet published its reasons for the verdict. Once it does, the
lawyer will appeal. The three were already in detention after attending
the first session of the appeal on 11 May. The judge ordered them to be
detained until the verdict.
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