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Egyptian student Karima al-Seirfy released from prison

August 24, 2014 at 2:57 pm

Karima al-Seirfy, 18-year-old university student and daughter of president Mohamed Morsi’s aide Amin al-Seirfy, has been released on Saturday evening four days after the prosecution’s decision to release her.

Karima, an undergraduate student at Al-Azhar School of Law and Jurisprudence, was arrested on March 19 on charges of “espionage” but no evidence was brought against her.

According to her family, police forces stormed into the apartment where she lived alone in Heliopolis, smashed the door, and stole all her personal belongings, including jewelry, television, mobile phone and clothes.

Her family said she, and a number of her fellow student detainees, have been assaulted by criminal prisoners and prison guards, and that she staged a hunger strike for over 96 days in protest against her unjust detention.