Government sources say social media posts by British-Egyptian activist do not meet legal bar for such sanction The Home Office will not strip the British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his ...

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Downing Street has said it was right for a freed British-Egyptian activist to apologise following the discovery of "abhorrent" social media posts. The historical tweets by Alaa Abd El-Fattah emerged ...

Granted UK citizenship in 2021, Mr Abd El-Fattah is facing calls for his deportation, or even for his citizenship to be revoked. Alaa Abd El-Fattah was a leading voice in Egypt's 2011 Arab Spring ...

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British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah has returned to the UK for the first time since his release after spending six years in prison in Egypt. Mr Abd El-Fattah, 44, was released ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced that the Egyptian-British activist and blogger Alaa Abd El-Fattah has returned to the United Kingdom after spending nearly 12 years as a political ...

Alaa Abd El Fattah, a British-Egyptian dual citizen, was imprisoned for most of the past 12 years as a dissident. He and his mother went on hunger strike to press for his release. By Vivian Yee Vivian ...

Abd el-Fattah pardoned after international pleas, hunger strikes Egypt's National Council for Human Rights welcomes the pardon His family campaigned for his release, met UK PM Starmer Abd el-Fattah's ...

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The family of a jailed Egyptian dissident has expressed renewed fears for his life as his health worsens more than 50 days after he went on hunger strike. Prominent government critic Alaa Abd ...