CAIRO — Egyptian authorities Tuesday released a university professor and activist after h...
Lawyer: Egypt releases activist after 30 months of detention – Minneapolis Star Tribune
CAIRO — Egyptian authorities Tuesday released a university professor and activist after he spent more than a year in pre-trail detention, his lawyer said. Hazem Hosny, a political science professor at Cairo University, arrived at his home in Cairo a day after a prosecutor ordered his conditional release. Hosny was set free pending an investigation into allegations he disseminated false news and joined an outlawed group, his lawyer, Khalid Ali, said. Hosny was a spokesman for the 2018 presidential campaign
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