Alaa Abdel-Fattah will have to report to a police station every day for the next five years
Egypt's pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah walks with his sister Mona Seif prior to a conference held at the American University in Cairo, near Tahrir Square, Egypt on Sept. 22, 2014.A leading Egyptian pro-democracy activist was freed from prison early Friday after serving a five-year sentence for inciting and taking part in protests, his family and lawyer said. The terms of his release, however, require that he report to a police station every day for the next five years.
Though out of prison, Abdel-Fattah’s sentence stipulates that for the next five years he will be under “police observation” and has to report to a police station every day. In some cases, released convicts only sign a logbook and then leave the police station but in others, measures are hasher. “We are heartened by the amount of joy his release has generated across the world,” she added. “We hold everyone who is still unjustly in prison, everyone who’s been disappeared, very much in our hearts and thoughts.”But Abdel-Fattah’s five-year sentence was his longest prison term. He was convicted for taking part in a peaceful demonstration following the military’s ouster in July 2013 of Egypt’s freely elected but controversial Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
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