A central figure in the Egyptian revolution of 2011 sentenced to five years in prison.
The activist and blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah, was sentenced by a special court in Cairo for "spreading false information", announced Monday his sister.
In detention, "Alaa was sentenced to five years," she wrote on her Twitter account, adding that her former lawyer Mohamed al-Baqer and blogger Mohamed Ibrahim, alias Oxygen, had been sentenced to "four years" for the same charges.
The verdicts of the special court cannot be appealed.
A central figure in the 2011 popular uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak from power, Alaa Abdel Fattah was imprisoned with his lawyer Me Baqer in September 2019 after rare protests against current President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Mohamed Ibrahim, founder of the blog "Oxygen Egypt", was also arrested in 2019 after posting videos of anti-government protests on social media, according to Amnesty International.
Nicknamed "the icon of the revolution", Alaa Abdel Fattah had been in preventive detention for more than two years and has spent a total of seven years in prison since 2013.
With AFP
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