A court in Aswan has acquitted seven Nubians of charges dating back to protests in 2017, reports Al Masry Al Youm. Conditional fines of up to EGP 50k were handed to 25 others “which would only be enforced if the defendants commit future crimes.” They were all arrested in September 2017 while marching to demand a return to their ancestral land on the banks of Lake Nasser, from which they were evicted in the 1960s after construction of the Aswan High Dam. Arab News also has the story.

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