An Egyptian appeals court has upheld the February conviction of opposition politician Ahmed Altantawy, meaning that he will serve a one-year jail sentence with hard labor.
Now barred from running for office for five years, Altantawy suspended his campaign last year after claiming that state-linked groups had been blocking him from collecting signatures as well as arresting relatives and political allies — something the government denied before arresting him.
Government authorities accused him of "circulating election-related papers without official authorization."
In a recent local Egyptian television interview with Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, he stated that “Egypt had utilized all peaceful
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A Tunisian court has sentenced lawyer and political commentator Sonia Dahmani to an additional two years in prison for remarks
France is appealing to Algeria to pardon acclaimed author Boualem Sansal, after an Algerian appeals court upheld his five-year sentence
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