Prominent Secular Activists in Egypt sentenced to long prison terms.

And the U.S. supports another disgusting fascist pig shit strongman. Yay.

An Egyptian court on Wednesday convicted a prominent activist from the 2011 uprising of organizing an unauthorized protest and assaulting a policeman, sentencing him to 15 years in prison, in the latest blow to liberal activists at a time of rapidly eroding freedoms.

The sentence against Alaa Abdel-Fattah is the toughest against any of the secular activists behind the 18-day uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's 29-year reign. It is also the first conviction of a prominent activist since former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi took office as president on Sunday.

In the 11 months since el-Sissi ousted the country's first freely elected president, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi, authorities have launched a massive crackdown on Islamists, detaining at least 16,000 and killing hundreds. Secular activists opposed to what they see as the revival of Mubarak's police state have also been detained.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/11/alaa-abdel-fattah_n_5483396.html

And assaulting a police officer? Dog Shit. Read about it and you'll understand that that is a made up charge.