Egyptian President Alaa Abdel-Fattah Outstanding Activist after spending years after the bars

The president of Egypt has pardoned a prominent British national -egipcio Alaa Abdel-Fattahwhich has been imprisoned during most of the last decade after its participation in the 2011 uprising.

The Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, issued forgiveness to the 43-year-old activist who has become one of the most outstanding political prisoners in the country. Five others were also forgiven.

“The Egyptian President issues a forgiveness for the rest of the prison sentence for several convicted persons, after taking constitutional and legal procedures in this regard,” said Al-Qahera News, linked to the intelligence services of the State of Egypt.

The United Nations had repeatedly asked their immediate release and called their arbitrary detention. The British government had also raised the case of Abdel-Fattah with the Egyptian authorities, even during the conversations between Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Sisi.

Initially he was sentenced to five years in prison in 2014 and released in early 2019, but was then arrested only a few months after being released, and sentenced to five more years in prison.

The forgiveness of Monday occurs a few days after SISI ordered the relevant authorities to study a petition presented by the National Human Rights Council affiliated with the State to forgive several people, including ABDEL-Fattah.

He also followed a decision of a Cairo Cairo Criminal Court to eliminate Abdel-Fattah from the country’s terrorism list, stating that recent investigations did not show evidence to link him with the prohibited Muslim Brotherhood group.

The decision also occurs when Abdel-Fattah’s mother, who is also an activist and academic, recently ended a 10-month hunger strike that demanded the release of her son.

Abdel-Fattah himself has been hunger Since the beginning of September, after a partial strike that began in March in solidarity with his mother.

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