{"id":603705,"date":"2023-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/08\/20\/political-activist-ahmed-douma-granted-presidential-pardon\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T00:00:00","slug":"political-activist-ahmed-douma-granted-presidential-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/08\/20\/political-activist-ahmed-douma-granted-presidential-pardon\/","title":{"rendered":"Political activist Ahmed Douma granted presidential pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> Leading the conversation <\/strong><strong> on Egypt <\/strong><strong> in the <\/strong><strong> international <\/strong><strong> press this morning: <\/strong> Ahmed Douma, a prominent political activist during the 2011 revolution, has been released from prison after spending almost a decade behind bars. Douma, who was serving a 15-year sentence for taking part in anti-government protests in 2011, was among a number of people pardoned by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi over the weekend. He is the latest high-profile prisoner to be released following <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/a9c5b37b-8bb2-44f1-9e4f-92454ebb92a6\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">human rights advocate Patrick Zaki and human rights lawyer Mohamed El Baqer<\/a> last month. (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/egypt-activist-human-rights-crackdown-333650af1aa34eacfece7a533d7ed176\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/egypts-president-pardons-prisoners-including-activist-ahmed-douma-state-tv-2023-08-19\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20230819-egypt-s-sisi-pardons-jailed-activist-ahmed-douma\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">AFP<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2023\/08\/19\/ahmed-douma-egypt-activist-sisi-pardon\/?itid=sr_1\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/19\/world\/middleeast\/egypt-el-sisi-pardon-ahmed-douma.html\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> ALSO- <\/strong>Human rights are also getting attention from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/16\/egypt-academic-salah-soltan-biden-detention\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">the Guardian<\/a>(the family of Morsi-era official Salah Soltan want the Biden administration to pressure Egypt to release him) and the tenth anniversary of Rabaa (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/18\/middleeast\/egypt-rabaa-sit-in-killings-eipr-report-mime-intl\/index.html\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/aug\/17\/the-guardian-view-on-the-rabaa-massacre-a-template-for-egypts-campaign-of-repression\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> Other headlines <\/strong>with knowing about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/egypt-blackouts-become-symbol-malaise-decade-after-sisis-rise-2023-08-16\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> covers the <strong> daily power cuts <\/strong> that have been a feature of our landscape since last month.<\/li>\n<li><strong> Mystery plane: <\/strong> Zambian authorities <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02VHyYT7bGEiZTJ5QKbGWYCN4ieBQHuYkJMBccxHMA2wTeWQPngCYzPqQ5R1vNu1vol&id=100064866843098\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">seized a private jet<\/a> carrying mns of USD, gold bars and weapons that had flown from Cairo. Six Egyptians were among 10 people detained for questioning. (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/world\/2023\/08\/16\/Zambia-seizes-plane-from-Egypt-carrying-5-7-mln-cash-gold-weapons\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Arabiya<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/africa\/2023\/08\/16\/zambia-egypt-plane\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">The National<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arabic.cnn.com\/middle-east\/article\/2023\/08\/16\/zambia-airport-egypt-plane-gold-money-social-reaction\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN Arabia<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douma was serving a 15=year jail sentence for taking part in anti-government protests in 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603706,"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":[7233],"tags":[72,210,127],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-603705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam","tag-human-rights","tag-politics","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"d1e805f5-2653-472a-b249-b535ac61f449","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/8\/894.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Egyptian political activist Ahmed Douma granted presidential pardon","related_issue":[603685],"teaser":"Douma was serving a 15=year jail sentence for taking part in anti-government protests in 2011","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2023\/8\/.9484b723-aac9-4ccd-a374-8ee95f34a613.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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