{"id":626,"date":"2014-10-26T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=626"},"modified":"2014-10-26T10:30:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T14:30:42","slug":"egypt-jails-23-activists-over-protests-middle-east-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Egypt jails 23 activists over protests – Middle East – Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Egypt jails 23 activists over protests – Middle East – Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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An Egyptian court has sentenced 23 pro-democracy activists to three years in jail\u00a0for holding an illegal protest,\u00a0despite international calls to free them.<\/p>\n

The defendants were sentenced on Sunday for their part in a peaceful demonstration in June near the presidential palace in Cairo, which called\u00a0for the annulment of a new anti-protest law that severely restricted the right to demonstrate.<\/p>\n

They were arrested while protesting the detention of Alaa Abdel Fattah, a political blogger, and other\u00a0activists held in jail.<\/p>\n

Some of the activists sentenced on Sunday had supported the army’s overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.<\/p>\n

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Egypt jails 23 activists over protests – Middle East – Al Jazeera English. The three-year jail sentence handed down is the maximum allowed under the law [AP] An Egyptian court has sentenced 23 pro-democracy activists to three years in jail\u00a0for holding an illegal protest,\u00a0despite international calls to free them. The defendants were sentenced on Sunday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14,99,250,483,657],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-activism","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-liberty-2","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}