An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced Patrick Zaki, a rights researcher who had been studying in Italy and was accused of spreading false news, to three years in jail, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) said.
Zaki had been arrested during a visit to Egypt in February 2020 while he was a graduate student at the University of Bologna in Italy and was charged with disseminating false information over an article he wrote about the plight of Egypt’s Christians.
He served 22 months in pre-trial detention before being released pending the completion of his trial at a state security court in his hometown of Mansoura. He has been arrested now and is being transferred to jail. EIPR head Hossam Bahgat told Reuters after the sentence was announced on Tuesday.
Source: eNCA
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South African media personality Anele Mdoda is one proud daughter and she has every reason to be. The TV and radio personality recently headed online to celebrate her father who she explained just built a school on the same rural property where he used to attend classes inside a hut.
Many of Anele’s fans were super proud and couldn’t contain it in the comment section where they sang both her and her father’s praises. The apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree for Anele Mdoda who appears to have followed in her father’s footsteps when it comes to success. Learn more
