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A presidential pardon on Wednesday saw Egyptian opposition figure Yahya Abdelhadi released from jail after three years, a lawyer said, making him the country’s latest political prisoner to have his sentence curtailed. The pardon for Abdelhadi – a key figure in the Kefaya (Enough) movement that helped topple longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak – comes after an announcement days earlier that11 political prisoners would be released by an order from the prosecution. Lawyer Tareq al-Awadi, a member of a committee formed in April to review the cases of prisoners eligible for presidential pardons, announ…