Tuesday marks 100 days since 68-year-old Laila Soueif started a hunger strike in a plea to the UK government to free her son from imprisonment in Egypt, according to her family.

Pick up the phone and bring Alaa home for Christmas. We’re counting on you.” In December 2021, Mr Abd El-Fattah was sentenced to five years in prison after being accused of spreading false ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has joined more than a dozen human rights organisations in calling on UK Foreign Minister ...

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One hundred days after jailed British-Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah should have been freed – and as his mother continues ...

David Lammy said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has made representations over the case of Alaa Abd El-Fattah ... Mr Abd ...

pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who is in jail in the Egyptian capital of Cairo. He holds British citizenship – his 13-year-old son, Khaled, lives in Brighton – but consecutive ...

Family and campaigners outside Downing Street drawing attention to Alaa Abdel Fattah's case in 2022 © Marie-Anne Ventoura/Amnesty International UK The mother of the ...

The extension of a prison sentence of a democracy activist in Egypt is prompting a hunger strike to draw attention to the ...

British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah has spent most of the past decade in prison because of his criticism of Egypt’s rulers.