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A court upheld on Wednesday a suspended three-month prison sentence against rights lawyer and former presidential candidate Khalid Ali for making an obscene gesture during a 2017 protest against the transfer of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia, Reuters' Arabic service reports. 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