Egyptian Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Photojournalist Shawkan | PDNPulse

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Egyptian Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Photojournalist Shawkan | PDNPulse

Mahmoud Abou Zeid, aka Shawkan, faces the death penalty along with 700 others arrested at an anti-government protest in Cairo in 2013.

via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/03/egyptian-prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-photojournalist-shawkan.html

“Seeking the death penalty for a photographer who simply covered an opposition demonstration is a political punishment, not an act of justice,” RSF said. “Shawkan’s only crime was trying to do his job as a photographer. He must be freed at once.”