Egyptian pro-democracy campaigner, Ahmed Maher, was released on Thursday from prison after serving a three-year jail term for an illegal street protest, according to reports.
Maher, 36, an iconic figure in the country’s 2011 uprising will be on probation for three more years as part of a court sentence in the same case, the report said.
In 2013, Maher was handed down the sentence after being convicted of participating in an unauthorised protest and attacking a police officer outside a Cairo court building.
The verdict was issued under a controversial law that heavily restricts public protests.
Hundreds of Egyptians have been arrested for violating the 2013 law.
Maher is the co-founder of the April 6 Movement that catalysed the 2011 protests that eventually forced longtime president Hosny Mubarak out of power.
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