President Abdel Fattah al Sisi exercised his constitutional powers to pardon several prisoners ahead of Egypt's presidential election scheduled for 2024.
Egyptian political activist Ahmed Douma reacts as he stands behind dock bars during his trial in Cairo on June 3, 2013. / Photo: AFP Archives
"President Abdel Fattah al Sisi... has used his constitutional powers" to pardon several prisoners including Douma, lawyer Tarek Elawady, a member of the presidential pardons committee, said on Saturday. A court in 2019 had sentenced Douma to 15 years in prison on charges of clashing with security forces in the capital two years earlier, reducing a previous 25-year sentence handed down in 2015.
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