Sister of Alaa Abd el-Fattah accused in Egypt of ‘spreading false news’
by Ruth Michaelson and Patrick Wintour from World news | The Guardian on (#65N1Q)
Complaint, which prosecutor has yet to accept, raises risk of Sanaa Seif's detention during Cop27
The sister of the jailed hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been informed that a pro-government lawyer has filed a case against her with the Egyptian public prosecutor accusing her of espionage and spreading false news".
The news comes a day after Sanaa Seif spoke at an event at the Cop27 climate summitbeing held in Egypt, which was widely reported on. The case accuses her of conspiring with foreign agencies against the Egyptian state, foreign agitation, and incitement against the Egyptian state and its institutions, and deliberately spreading false news."
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