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EFerrari

(163,986 posts)
Wed Dec 28, 2011, 10:05 AM Dec 2011

Alaa is free. (Dial up warning) [View all]

He was released on Christmas Day and went right back to Tahrir. From the Egyptian Chronicles blog:

Sunday, December 25, 2011
#FreeAlaa : Alaa is released !!

This is the good news of the day indeed.

Our dear blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fatah Seif has been released pending investigation by the judge on Sunday.

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Alaa Abdel Fatah Seif was accused in the Maspero clashes which are being investigated now by civilian judge after month in front of Military judiciary followed by state security court then a civilian judge.

Here is the first photo showing Alaa Abdel Fatah as a free man outside the jail , he has been always a free man.











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