Egypt: Immediately release Badr Mohamed who has served his unjust protest-related sentence

By Amnesty International

Ahead of an appeal hearing at the Court of Cassation against Badr Mohamed’s unjust conviction and five-year prison sentence in connection to the Ramsis Square protests on 16 August 2013, when he was 17 years old, Amnesty International’s Egypt Campaigner, Souleimene Benghazi, said: “Amnesty International has long called on the Egyptian authorities to immediately release […] The post Egypt: Immediately release Badr Mohamed who has served his unjust protest-related sentence appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>

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