Egypt sends leading anti-Mubarak activist to jail

  • 10 years ago
An Egyptian court has sentenced to five years in jail a leading figure in Egypt's 2011 uprising, in what human rights observers called a slap in the country's justice system.

The court in Cairo handed the sentence against Alaa Abdel Fattah on Monday, saying that the prominent blogger and anti-Mubarak activist, violated Egypt's protest law.

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