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Egypt’s president, Sisi pardons 560 inmates including prominent journalist
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Fri, 17 May 2019 || Egypt,
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt has pardoned not less than 560 inmates, including a prominent journalist who had criticized the establishment.
The pardons, announced in the official gazette on Thursday, coincide with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Journalist Abdel Halim Qandil was sentenced to three years in absentia in December 2017 for “insulting the judiciary,” AP reported.
He surrendered in October 2018 as Egypt’s highest appeals court upheld his judgment.
Qandil was tried in a case that included 17 other defendants, among them ousted Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi, on the same charges.Addel
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