Prisoner release draws attention to anti-terrorism laws

Source:
Daily News Egypt
Date of source:
25 Sep 2015
Publishers:

Wednesday’s pardon of 100 prisoners by Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi is drawing mixed reactions from around the world, even as it focuses renewed attention on the controversial anti-terrorism laws under which some of the released prisoners had been held. The human rights group Amnesty International hailed the announcement of the prisoner release as “welcome news” … The release included Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Fahmy who according to Al-Ahram had been charged for his alleged membership in “an outlawed group – the Muslim Brotherhood – obstructing governmental institutions and law, attacking the personal liberty of citizens, and harming national unity and social peace”. Australian Peter Greste had earlier been deported but was nevertheless sentenced to a three-year prison sentence in absentia. If Egyptians would issue an international warrant of arrest against him it would complicate his life if he would want to travel.

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