{"id":971,"date":"2015-02-23T16:55:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:55:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T16:55:47","slug":"egyptian-court-jails-leading-activist-for-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/02\/23\/egyptian-court-jails-leading-activist-for-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian court jails leading activist for five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian court sentenced a prominent activist to five years in jail on Monday for violating limits on demonstrations, part of one of the toughest crackdowns on dissent in Egypt&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>After the verdict was read out, chants of &#8220;Down, down with military rule!&#8221; rang out from supporters of Alaa Abdel Fattah crowded into the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Abdel Fattah was a leading secular figure in the 2011 revolt that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak. He was originally sentenced in absentia to 15 years in jail, along with 24 others, before a retrial was ordered.<\/p>\n<p>The blogger and software engineer is one of several activists to have been jailed since the army overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in mid-2013 and launched a crackdown not only on his Muslim Brotherhood but also on secular democracy activists\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian court sentenced a prominent activist to five years in jail on Monday for violating limits on demonstrations, part of one of the toughest crackdowns on dissent in Egypt&#8217;s history. After the verdict was read out, chants of &#8220;Down, down with military rule!&#8221; rang out from supporters of Alaa Abdel Fattah crowded into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,366],"tags":[365],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","category-hra","tag-egyptian-court-activist-five-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}