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How Egyptian 4-year-old faced life sentence

Faulty record-keeping in Egypt's military court system could have landed a little boy in jail.
A demonstrator looks on with a sign reading "I am against the military courts for civilians" taped over his mouth during a human chain by members of the April 6 movement and liberal activists against a law restricting demonstrations as well as the crackdown on activists and calling for the release of activists in detention in front of El-Thadiya Egyptian Presidential in Cairo, April 23, 2014. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3MD2M
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Mansour al-Qurani never suspected that a small mistake — a mistake not even of his own making — would put his family’s fate in danger. Yet last month, his 4-year-old son was sentenced to life in prison for supposedly participating in a deadly riot in 2014.

It took five days and the family's appearance on TV to convince the military a mistake had been made.

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