Egyptian Female Activist Jailed for 15 Months
KABUL: (Middle East Press) An Egyptian appeals court sentenced a lawyer and award-winning activist has been sentenced to 15 months in jail for breaking into a police station and assaulting officers in 2013 by an Egyptian appeals court, a court official said.
The Sunday ruling was issued by the Egyptian Appeals Court in the coastal city of Alexandria after a lower court sentenced Mahienour el-Massry, the 29-year-old activist, to two years in prison.
When the judge read the verdict, Massry chanted “Down with military rule”.
Defence lawyer Mohamed Ramadan said the defendants were charged when they had gone to a police station in Alexandria in March 2013 to check about a fellow lawyer who had been detained.
He dismissed the verdict — which is final — as a “political” ruling.
