Egypt sentences activist Sanaa Seif to 18 months in prison amid global outcry
Seif was detained in June 2020 following her demands to communicate with her jailed brother Alaa Abdel Fattah
Sanaa Seif has been in pretrial detention since June (AFP) By Published date: 17 March 2021 14:58 UTC | Last update: 6 sec ago
Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif was sentenced to a year and a half in prison on Wednesday, her sister confirmed on Twitter.
Seif, a prominent activist and film editor, was abducted outside the prosecutor-general s office in Cairo on 23 June last year as she was seeking to lodge an official complaint about being attacked the previous day while camping outside Tora prison, where her brother Alaa Abdel Fattah is held.