Egypt jails key revolution figure Abdel Fattah for 5 years

Alaa Abdel Fattah

In this file photo taken on May 17, 2019, Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah gives an interview at his home in Cairo. PHOTO | AFP

Egypt on Monday sentenced Alaa Abdel Fattah, a leading figure in the 2011 revolution, to five years in jail, with two others receiving four years, his sister and a judicial source said.

A computer programmer, blogger and high-profile activist who mobilised youths in the uprising that unseated autocrat Hosni Mubarak, Abdel Fattah had been in pre-trial detention since September 2019.