One of the leading activists in Egypt’s 2011 revolution has been sentenced to five years in prison. Alaa Abd El-Fattah received the term in a retrial following an original sentence of 15 years. He was accused of inciting a 2013 protest that broke a law barring public gatherings without government approval. El-Fattah has been imprisoned multiple times since playing a key role in the protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak four years ago, missing the birth of his child and, more recently, the death of his father. As the verdict was read today, El-Fattah’s family and friends wept in the courtroom and shouted, "Down with military rule."
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