9 years ago
Egyptian Court Sentences American Citizen Journalist to Life in Prison
Mohamed Soltan had just graduated from Ohio State University when his mother was diagnosed with cancer in her home country of Egypt. After hearing the news, he flew straight to Cairo to care for her. The idealistic 25-year-old, an American citizen who spoke Arabic, began translating for foreign journalists as pro-democracy demonstrations swept through the nation. Within months of his 2013 arrival in Egypt, a sniper shot him in the arm at a rally. Authorities arrested Soltan.
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