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2015-06-19 Africa North
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Egypt to Free 165 Jailed Protesters
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[AnNahar] Egypt has granted presidential pardons to 165 people enjugged
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
under a controversial law governing the right to protest, a statement from the presidency said on Wednesday.
However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
the list does not include any figures from the 2011 revolt that drove Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
from power and who were imprisoned under the law in a move that caused uproar among international human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
groups.
The 165, "convicted in trials for breaking the law on demonstrations", have been granted a presidential pardon and will not serve the remainder of their sentences, the statement said.
It said the list of those to be released "includes a large number of young people and minors".
The announcement comes on the eve of the start of the holy Moslem fasting month of Ramadan.
Since the army toppled Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013, the authorities have cracked down hard on his supporters and on all forms of opposition.
In November 2013, they adopted a new law outlawing demonstrations that have not been given advance authorization by the police.
Hundreds of Islamist protesters -- as well as dozens of secular and leftwing demonstrators -- have been enjugged
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under the legislation.
Leftwinger Alaa Abdel Fattah, a top secular activist behind the protests that led to Mubarak's downfall, was sentenced to five years in prison.
His sister Sanaa Seif got two years, and the founder of the April 6 movement that spearheaded the 2011 revolt, Ahmed Maher, was sentenced to three years.
There have been calls for President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi -- who was army chief when Morsi was ousted -- to pardon figures from the 2011 uprising.
Following Morsi's removal, his supporters were targeted in a campaign of bloody repression in which at least 1,400 people were killed when security forces used deadly force against protesters.
According to Human Rights Watch
... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge....
, more than 40,000 people were incarcerated
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
or referred to the courts.
Hundreds have been sentenced to death in speedy mass trials that the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
called "unprecedented in recent history".
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