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The Court of Cassation upheld the five-year jail sentence against opposition activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, Reuters reports. \u201cAbdel Fattah, who has already served more than three years in prison, was jailed for protesting without permission \u2026 Prosecutors said Abdel Fattah was guilty of organizing a protest in November 2013 because he had promoted it on […]<\/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":[2376,72],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-637197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-politics-economics","tag-egypt-politics-economics","tag-enterpriseam","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"7a774857-d6aa-42cb-b0c4-10380378e7e1","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[637159],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nCourt upholds Alaa Abdel Fattah\u2019s prison sentence - 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