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Egyptian PresidentAbdel Fattah Al-Sisi has pardoned a journalist who was jailed for “spreading false news”, as well as more than 3,000 prisoners, local media and officials said Wednesday. Hossam Moniss, who is also a prominent leftist organiser, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment in November over the charge, which is frequently levelled against dissidents in Egypt. Local media reported Moniss’s pardon on Wednesday, while Tarek al-Awady, a lawyer and member of the recently re-formed Presidential Pardon Committee, tweeted “congratulations, Hossam Moniss has been pardoned.” The interior mi…