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February 25, 2021 at 2:18 pm | Published in: Africa, Egypt, News Hoda Abdelmonem [FadwaKhaled/Facebook] February 25, 2021 at 2:18 pm The family of detained lawyer Hoda Abdelmonem has issued a statement to say they have been denied visitation rights. It comes in response to a statement published on the social media accounts of the Interior Ministry which claimed Hoda is regularly visited by her family. "We are truly shocked by these allegations which proves that the regime has no real intenti...

Egypt frees Jazeera journalist after 4 years jail: security AFP 2/5/2021 AFP © Khaled DESOUKI Egypt has released from jail Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein, seen in this February 2020 picture, who had been detained for more than four years without formal charges or a trial Egypt has released Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein after more than four years in detention on accusations of publishing false news, a security source said Friday. Hussein, an Egyptian national ...

CAIRO: Egypt has freed Al-Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein, a security source said Friday, after four years in jail without trial following the end last month of a rift between the two Arab states. Hussein, an Egyptian national who had been imprisoned since December 23, 2016, was released on Thursday night, the Egyptian security source told AFP without elaborating. But Gamal Eid, head of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, said that while the decision to release Hussein had been ta...

CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt has released Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein after more than four years in detention on accusations of publishing false news, a security source said Friday (Feb 5). Mr Hussein, an Egyptian national held under preventive detention since December 2016, was released from jail on Thursday night, the source said, without giving further details. Al Jazeera - which has run a daily campaign for his liberation - did not immediately confirm his release but had repeatedly said he...

There had been repeated calls for Mahmoud Hussein's release.

Egypt has released Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein after more than four years in detention on accusations of publishing false news, a security source said Friday.

Mahmoud Hussein. Source: Al Jazeera Thursday evening, Egyptian authorities released Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein who had been in custody for four years on charges of "spreading false news," according to a security source told AFP. The source did not give further details. Al-Jazeera, who had repeatedly demanded his release, did not confirm the release of Hussein.  The channel previously noted that no formal charges were brought against him and he was not brought to trial during the ent...

. A [new] Cabinet without women members is unacceptable, ex-minister of human rights Hooriyah Mashehoor said./Aden Alghad     Thousands of people took to the streets of [central Yemen] city of Taiz in angry “Demonstrations of the Hungry” over the serious fall of the national currency. The protesters called the Riyal depreciation a starvation policy blaming it on the Arab Coalition, the government and the Houthis alike./Multiple websites. Unifying ranks behind the legitimate government is...

The kids at check points, machine guns and so on and thats about as physically courageous as anything you can imagine and keeps his cool and hes not alone, lots in that category. thats the good kind of reporting. >> from time to time-- andrea i was going to say its having. libyan officials say theyve invited cnn and others to come to take tours and head of cnn says thats news to me. they doesnt seem to be communicating. i think that these networks and the united states and elsewhere are still ve...

The kids at check points, machine guns and so on and thats about as physically courageous as anything you can imagine and keeps his cool and hes not alone, lots in that category. thats the good kind of reporting. >> from time to time-- andrea i was going to say its having. libyan officials say theyve invited cnn and others to come to take tours and head of cnn says thats news to me. they doesnt seem to be communicating. i think that these networks and the united states and elsewhere are still ve...