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Mohammadi had been temporarily released on medical grounds from prison, where she was serving a long sentence for alleged propaganda activities.
The New York Times was reporting on a “widespread legal attack on the state’s prison system” by followers of Elijah Muhammad.
Yoon was ousted in April and is now in prison following a brief but disastrous imposition of martial law.
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Prosecutors sought a 10-year prison term on Friday for charges including obstruction of justice, after Yoon allegedly excluded cabinet members from a martial law meeting and in January blocked investigators from detaining him.
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An Egyptian court denied on Thursday the appeal of a prominent economist seeking to overturn his five-year prison sentence for disseminating "fake news", according to one of his lawyers.
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