Douma led protests during Egypt’s 2011 revolution but has since spent nearly a decade behind bars.
along with two other pro-democracy activists in December 2013 for violating a restrictive protest law passed by the military-backed government that took power in a coup that summer. He was sentenced to three years in prison, before being convicted and sentenced to 15 years on separate charges in 2015, in a trial that the rights group Amnesty InternationalDouma was tortured and denied medical care during his detention,.
Douma was previously imprisoned for his activism under the governments of former presidents Hosni Mubarak — who was deposed during the revolution — and Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated president elected after the uprising.Thirty other, less-prominent prisoners also received pardons Saturday, according to a list published on social media by Tarek El-Awady, a member of the presidential pardon committee.
Mostafa Al-A’sar, an Egyptian human rights defender and journalist who was imprisoned for several years, shared an old photo of Douma and him, smiling, “before prisons and detention centers.” “May God compensate you, Douma, for the years of your life that they stole ... 10 years of arrest, unjust imprisonment and solitary confinement,” he
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