Prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah is to appear in court on Monday after spending more than two years in pre-trial detention, a lawyer and family members say.
Abdel Fattah, his lawyer Mohamed al-Baqer and blogger Mohamed Ibrahim will be tried in a State Security court whose verdicts cannot be appealed, lawyer Khaled Ali announces on social media.
Abdel Fattah’s mother Leila Soueif said her son had been questioned in September about “spreading false news.”
Abdel Fattah was a prominent figure in Egypt’s 2011 uprising aginst autocratic president Hosni Mubarak and had already spent time in jail before his 2019 arrest.
He and lawyer Baqer were imprisoned after rare, small-scale protests in September of that year against the government of current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
They were both added to Cairo’s “terror” list late last year, a move involving a travel ban and an assets freeze.
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