Prison sentences issued by an emergency court to Alaa Abdelfattah, Mohamed Baqer and Mohmed Oxygen in October last year do not include the two years they were held on pretrial detention before that. Baqer’s wife, Naema Hisham, found out that her husband’s four-year prison sentence was ratified on 3 January 2022 up until January 2026, reports Mada Masr, even though he has been detained since September 2019. Lawyers confirmed to Mada Masr that the five-year prison sentence given to Alaa and the four-year term given to Baqer and Oxygen by the emergency state security court (ESSC) for “spreading false news and undermining national security” will not have their pre-trial detention period deducted from their sentences. Abdelfattah is a blogger and member of the … Continue reading Egypt: Pretrial detention will not be deducted from prison sentences