Egypt announces freedom, mass pardon for 30 jailed activists

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Egypt announced late Thursday the release of 30 political activists from jail, the latest in a series of mass releases from detention amid intensifying international scrutiny over the country's human rights record.

There was no immediate word on the identities of the activists and it was not immediately possible to confirm how many of them have already been freed.

El-Awady later posted photographs, describing them as showing several of the freed detainees hugging family members and friends. The issue came to focus during Egypt's hosting of the two-week world climate summit earlier this month. The conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh was in part overshadowed by the hunger strike of imprisoned Egyptian political dissident, Alaa Abdel-Fattah.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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