Ahmed Maher (youth leader)

[4] However, his efforts were hindered both by interference from Egyptian security forces[5][6] and internal divisions within the April 6 movement.

In June 2010, Maher helped organize a protest against the killing, by Egyptian police, of Khaled Said, a young resident of Alexandria.

On 22 December 2013, together with other opposition leaders Ahmed Douma and Mohammed Adel, Maher was sentenced to three years in prison as a punishment for protests against recent steps by the Egyptian military government.

[9] The international community, including the U.S. State Department[10] and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France,[11] criticized the court’s decision in the context of human rights in Egypt.

[16] His lawyers state that provisory freedom was given their client and that he could be confined at the police station overnight at the discretion of authorities.