Activist Charged With Conspiracy

A prominent human rights activist and 27 others were charged with crimes including illegally accepting foreign funds, conspiracy to bribe and making false statements about Egypt’s internal situation, police said. State Security prosecutors filed the charges against Saad Eddine Ibrahim, a critic of the government who also holds U.S. citizenship. Ibrahim also was charged with embezzling $230,000 donated to his think tank, and he and others were accused of planning to bribe employees of state-run radio and television to air programs about the center.