An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced researcher Ahmed Samir to three years in prison for “spreading false news”, according to rights groups. Samir, who was a postgraduate student at the Central European University in Vienna, was arrested in February 2021 while on a family visit to Egypt. The researcher had his sentence commuted in a retrial after he had been sentenced to four years in prison in June 2021 for “spreading false news on social media” – an accusation frequently levelled at dissidents in Egypt. 🇪🇬Today is the retrial of Ahmed Samir Santawy. #Egypt has promised that the state of eme…