Amy Goodman
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In Sisi's Egypt, Leading Dissident Gets 15-Year Term as Al Jazeera Reporter Languishes Behind Bars
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June 12, 2014
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10:51Now PlayingAn Egyptian court has sentenced one of the country's most prominent prodemocracy activists to 15 years in prison. Alaa Abd ElFattah was found guilty of illegal protest and attacking a police officer for a rally against a draconian protest law last year. Twentyfour other defendants in the case received the same 15year sentence. Since they were tried in absentia, they are entitled to a retrial. It's the first conviction of a prominent activist since former army chief AbdelFattah elSissi took office as president on Sunday. As ElFattah faces a lengthy prison term, the AlJazeeraArabic journalist Abdullah Elshamy is on a nearly fivemonth hunger strike in protest of his detention without charge. Elshamy has reportedly lost over a third of his body weight and is reportedly suffering from severe anaemia, low blood pressure and the start of kidney failure. We go to Cairo to speak with Alaa Abd ElFattah's aunt, the famed Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif, and Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous. And we are joined by Abdullah Elshamy's brother, Mohammed.
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