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An appeal made by former anti-corruption chief Hisham Genena against a five-year prison sentence was rejected on Sunday by an Egyptian military court, Reuters<\/a> reports. Genena, an opposition figure who had supported the brief 2018 presidential bid of former military chief of staff Sami Anan against President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, was arrested in February 2018 after threatening to release \u201csensitive\u201d documents. He was subsequently charged with spreading false news harmful to the military and sentenced to five years in prison. Genena\u2019s daughter has declared Sunday\u2019s verdict, which is subject to further appeal, as being upheld \u201cfor political reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An appeal made by former anti-corruption chief Hisham Genena against a five-year prison sentence was rejected on Sunday by an Egyptian military court, Reuters reports. Genena, an opposition figure who had supported the brief 2018 presidential bid of former military chief of staff Sami Anan against President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, was arrested in February […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9346],"tags":[109,2376,72,622],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-601565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-politics-economics","tag-corruption","tag-egypt-politics-economics","tag-enterpriseam","tag-national-security","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"5f9162b0-91a3-413b-9fa8-558a2ed221a4","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[601529],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nHisham Genena\u2019s prison sentence upheld by military court: - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/03\/04\/hisham-genenas-prison-sentence-upheld-by-military-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hisham Genena\u2019s prison sentence upheld by military court:\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An appeal made by former anti-corruption chief Hisham Genena against a five-year prison sentence was rejected on Sunday by an Egyptian military court, Reuters reports. 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