Alaa Abd El Fattah, a political activist, and Ahmed Abdel-Rahman were sentenced to five years in prison for violating a law that seeks to curtail demonstrations.
ISTANBUL — A blogger who came to be one of the best-known faces of the 2011 uprising in Egypt was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday, part of the military-backed government’s continuing crackdown on dissent.
The blogger, Alaa Abd El Fattah, 33, comes from a prominent family of left-leaning activists and writers. He was convicted of taking part in an unauthorized November 2013 demonstration against military trials of civilians, as well as related charges like rioting and disturbing the peace. In addition to the prison sentence, he was fined $13,000 by the court in Cairo.
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David D. Kirkpatrick reported from Istanbul, and Merna Thomas from Cairo.
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