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Urgent: Egypt sentences activist Ahmed Douma to life in prison

Xinhua, February 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced prominent liberal activist Ahmed Douma to life imprisonment on charge of violence outside the cabinet headquarters in 2013, the state-run Ahram website reported. Endit