#pardon

#pardon

The Atlanta private-school world is small enough that, the day after January 6th, 2021, I heard from multiple sources that at least one insurrectionist had, like me, graduated from its ranks. Cleveland Grover Meredith, Jr., had attended an expensive school called Lovett in the nineteen-eighties and, as I soon learned from his classmates and friends, had been a star runner there, winning a state championship in the two-mile.

He was arrested in September 2019 and later sentenced in 2021 to five years in jail for spreading false news. The Egyptian-British human rights activist and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been pardoned after almost six years in jail and hunger strikes by Abd el-Fattah and his mother. The announcement was made on Monday in Egypt's official gazette and came following an appeal from the National Council for Human Rights, Al Qahera news reported.

"They were treated more harshly because of their status; that’s not the way our criminal justice system is supposed to work."

I am grateful to God and extremely grateful to President Trump and his entire administration. I'm beyond thankful to finally have my parents back home and my family together again!