Egypt has freed a detained labor activist who criticized the government and spent about five months in detention, but he will have to report at least once a week to the police, a rights lawyer said Tuesday.
Activist Kamal Khalil walked free from a police station late on Monday, a week after a court ordered his conditional release, according to Gamal Eid, the head of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information.
Khalil will have to periodically report to a nearby police station and he still faces charges of disseminating false news and joining an outlawed group. It's unclear if the case will go to trial.
"Membership in an outlawed group" is Egyptian government parlance for having ties to a range of outlawed groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organization that authorities labeled a terrorist group and banned in 2013.