A video script is, in many ways, no different than a script for a feature film or television show: It’s a written blueprint for the visual story you want to tell. Now, in terms of format, a video ...

Paul Ovenden argues time spent discussing political prisoner was symptom of government struggling to focus Efforts to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah regularly distracted Keir Starmer’s government from ...

Should Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s tweets have legal consequences? Comparing and contrasting the cases of Lucy Connolly and Abd El-Fattah By David Allen Green Is it possible to have a principled, consistent ...

In a highly unusual clarification, the Supreme Court has said it played no role in the 2021 decision that led to the award of UK citizenship to the Egyptian political activist whose arrival in the UK ...

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 ...

Rights groups have warned that stripping the citizenship of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah over 15-year-old social media posts would set a dangerous precedent that could threaten ...

How much effort should a country expend to rescue someone who appears to hate its values? That is the question posed by the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Last week, those efforts finally paid off. Egypt ...

Yvette Cooper has ordered an urgent Foreign Office review of "serious information failures" in the case of a freed British-Egyptian activist. Ms Cooper, the foreign secretary, said successive prime ...

LONDON - Activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, freed from prison in Egypt and now in Britain, apologised on Dec 29 for his “shocking and hurtful” social media posts made more than a decade ago, which have led ...

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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 ...

A British citizen who was admitted to the UK after being illegally detained in Egypt has apologised "unequivocally" for historic tweets appearing to call for violence against Zionists. Alaa Abd ...