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Egyptian student sentenced

By AFP
June 24, 2021

Cairo: An Egyptian court on Wednesday convicted a university student to four years in prison for "spreading false news", rights groups said, in a sentence Amnesty International labelled "outrageous". Ahmed Samir, a master’s student at the Central European University in Vienna studying women’s reproductive rights, was arrested in February after returning to Egypt on a family visit.