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Trials Of Prominent Activists In Egypt Adjourned

Trials Of Prominent Activists In Egypt Adjourned

From Al-Jazeera

An Egyptian court has adjourned the trial of 23 activists accused of breaching a bar on protests unauthorised by the government, a crime that has put thousands in prison.

The trial will resume on October 16. Among those activists is Sana Seif, a 20-year old who was arrested on July 21 while demonstrating against the arrest of her brother, renowned blogger and human rights defender Alaa Abdel Fattah. 

While Alaa has since been released, Sana remains in prison.

“Sanaa, Yara and Ettehadeyya group to remain in prison till Thursday 16,” Seif’s aunt, activist Ahdaf Souef, said on her twitter account, using a name used by local media to refer to the case, referring to the presidential Ettehadeyya palace in front of which Sana was demonstrating.

“We don’t know what to expect anymore,” Laila Soueif, Seif’s mother and an assistant professor of mathematics at Cairo University, told Al Jazeera. “We’ve given up on understanding. If things proceed according to logic, it should be postponed, since the case was referred to a new judicial circuit and a new judge. But our lawyers are braced for all scenarios.”

 

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