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1st LD: Egypt sentences activist life sentence over violence

Xinhua, February 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

An Egyptian court sentenced on Wednesday prominent liberal activist, Ahmed Douma for life sentence on violence-related charges, state-run Ahram website reported.

Douma, also a blogger who spearheaded the 2011 popular uprising, which toppled former President Hosni Mubarak, was also fined with 17 million Egyptian pounds (2.2 million U.S. dollars) over burning a scientific complex in the vicinity of the cabinet.

He was charged along with 268 others in the case know publically as "the cabinet events," of assembling without prior approval of the interior ministry as required by a controversial protest law, weapons possession, assaulting policemen, and setting a governmental institution ablaze.

On Jan. 27, Douma also received three years in prison for insulting the judiciary.

He, along with two activists, were sentenced to three years in prison in December 2013 for participation in the illegal pro-democracy protests under the new protest law. Endit