Egypt Military Junta Sentences 2011 Revolutionaries to 3 Years Hard Labor

Juan Cole 12/22/2013

Egypt court jails anti-Mubarak activists for 3 years (via AFP)

An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced three activists who spearheaded the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak to three years in jail for organising an unlicensed protest, judicial sources said. It was the first such verdict against non-Islamist protesters…

Informed Comment discussed the military coup government’s arrest of Ahmad Maher and other activists of youth groups who made the 2011 revolution here.

The Guardian reported on the arrest of Ahmad Maher of the April 6 youth movement a couple of weeks ago:

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page