CAIRO: Ahmed Maher, the leader of the 2011 revolt that toppled the government of Hosni Mubarak has been released from prison after completing his sentence on Wednesday.
Maher had been the principal initiator of the protest movement held on April 6 against Mubarak’s lengthy rule. That movement had been the catalyst which had sparked protest across the country which had eventually resulted in Mubarak’s administration being overthrown.
He had been arrested by the military government under the control of current President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in November of 2013. Maher was protesting a new law which banned public gatherings not approved by the interior ministry.
His lawyer said that he would remain under judicial supervision for the next three years.
Other prominent activists who had been convicted alongside him, which included Mohamed Adel and Ahmed Douma, were still imprisoned.
President Sisi, who had previously been the country’s armed forces chief, has been accused of suppressing all forms of opposition against his administration since organising a coup d’état in 2013 against the elected government of President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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