UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy visits Cairo on Thursday to press local officials to release a jailed British-Egyptian ...

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

Last Thursday, Alaa Abdel Fattah's family said they had ... for Human Rights Volker Türk have also urged Egypt to free Abdel Fattah. UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly told the BBC's Today ...

After the 80th line, the words “Free Alaa” follow. The strike is intended to put pressure on the British government to secure the release of her son, pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah ...

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

Soueif will be accompanied to No10 by Amnesty UK campaigners who will hand in a 14,000-name petition similarly calling on the Government to act on Abdel Fattah’s behalf. As part of the “Free Alaa” ...

Campaigners have urged the Prime Minister to step up his efforts to help free Alaa Abd El-Fattah ... to Sir Keir insisting Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi can “resolve this case with ...

according to the Free Alaa campaign. We have been lucky that my body has been resilient but we will soon run out of time Laila Soueif Mr Abd El-Fattah has spent most of the past decade in prison ...

Laila Soueif has not eaten for more than three weeks and is past the stage of feeling hungry. In London to campaign for the release of her British-Egyptian son, Alaa Abdel Fattah, the 68-year-old ...

However, Mehran was once again left behind. We have been campaigning for the UK Government to do everything in its power to help free Mehran and Alaa, but the UK Government is still needlessly keeping ...

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.