{"id":3397,"date":"2014-06-30T09:36:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T02:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2014-06-30T09:36:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T02:36:27","slug":"anti-protest-law-activists-trial-postponed-to-13-september-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/anti-protest-law-activists-trial-postponed-to-13-september-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-protest law activists&#8217; trial postponed to 13 September 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Cairo misdemeanour has postponed the trial of 23 defendants charged with violating the protest law to 13 September, Al-Ahram&#8217;s Arabic news website reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 23 defendants were arrested last week in a protest held to demand an end to a law issued last November banning all demonstrations not pre-approved by the police.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens showed for the protest to march from Al-Haram metro station in Heliopolis towards Ittihadiya presidential palace. However, the protest was dispersed after groups of people threw rocks and glass bottles at the demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants include Sana Seif, sister of jailed blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who is currently facing a 15-year prison sentence on similar charges&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/1\/64\/105074\/Egypt\/Politics-\/Antiprotest-law-activists-trial-postponed-to--Sept.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cairo misdemeanour has postponed the trial of 23 defendants charged with violating the protest law to 13 September, Al-Ahram&#8217;s Arabic news website reported on Sunday. The 23 defendants were arrested last week in a protest held to demand an end to a law issued last November banning all demonstrations not pre-approved by the police. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,1877,542,4697,415,1878,1879,257,4694,1876,254],"class_list":["post-3397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-haram-metro-station","tag-alaa-abdel-fattah","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-heliopolis","tag-ittihadiya-presidential-palace","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-sana-seif","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}