BREAKING: Egypt vindicates journalist Ahmed Gamal Ziyada

By Noha Gad On Apr 29, 2015

A Cairo criminal court has acquitted journalist Ahmed Gamal Ziyada, after he spent more than 486 days in pre-trial detention.

The court acquitted 12 other defendants and sentenced 63 to up to seven years in jail for illegal protesting and rioting at Al-Azhar University in December 2013.

Source: Ahram Online