A court in Egypt has upheld two-year prison sentences for five secular opposition activists convicted of joining illegal demonstrations staged in memory of protests that were violently suppressed. According to a court official and a defence lawyer, they were accused of taking part in an event in November 2015 in memory of the violence four years earlier.

The Egyptian government has been slammed for the continued detention of a young student for wearing an anti-torture t-shirt. Mahmoud Hussein has spent more than two years in jail for the t-shirt without being charged, which Amnesty International said on Tuesday was an "utter disgrace" and "flagrant violation of Egyptian and international law". Hussein was just 18-years-old when he was arrested in 2013 for wearing a "Nation Without Torture" t-shirt and a scarf with the logo of "25 January Revolution".