
Credit: Reuters/Asmaa Waguih
Alaa Abdel Fattah (R), one of the activists who was summoned by the public prosecutor on whether he had a role in the recent violent anti-Islamists protests, arrives with his wife and child to the public prosecutor's office in Cairo, in this file March 26, 2013 photo.
Abdel Fattah was one of the most prominent activists in the 2011 uprising against President Hosni Mubarak.
The ruling came three days after former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was inaugurated as president.
(Writing by Michael Georgy: editing by John Stonestreet)
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