Rights lawyer Khaled Ali referred to trial next week, released on EGP 1,000 bail

Human rights lawyer Khaled Ali will be standing trial on 29 May for charges of offending public morals with an “obscene hand gesture” outside the courthouse in January, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Ali was released on a EGP 1,000 bail yesterday after being detained for 24 hours and could be looking at a six-month sentence or sizeable fine if convicted. “A conviction could render him ineligible to run for Egypt’s highest office” in 2018, the AP says.