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Egypt sentences blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah to five years in prison

Lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer and blogger Mohamed “Oxygen” Ibrahim were also each sentenced to four years in the same case for spreading false news and undermining state security. 
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A court in Egypt sentenced three leading human rights activists to prison on Monday for spreading false news and undermining state security. 

A state security court in Cairo handed a five-year prison term to activist and software developer Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who was a leading figure in the 2011 uprising that overthrew Egypt’s longtime President Hosni Mubarak.

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