Alaa Abdel Fattah, a prominent writer and pro-democracy activist, is one of Egypt's highest-profile prisoners. He has been detained unlawfully for over a decade and should be released immediately.

Cairo (AFP) – Jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah began a hunger strike at the start of the month after his mother was hospitalised more than 150 days into her own hunger strike ...

Her decision follows a call between Sir Keir Starmer and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on February 28, in which the Prime Minister pressed for El-Fattah’s release. But Ms Soueif ...

Her son Alaa Abdel Fattah, 43, an icon of Egypt’s 2011 revolution and a secular critic of president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, completed a five-year prison sentence in September but has not yet been ...

Last month General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the SAF’s leader and Sudan’s de facto president, made his first appearance in the capital since being forced to relocate to Port Sudan on the Red Sea ...

David Lammy raised the case with officials in Cairo last month, and the Prime Minister has also brought it to the attention of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Downing Street has said.

Abdel-Fattah is being threatened with dismissal by Macquarie University and being stripped of her Australian Research Council (ARC) research grant, at the behest of Zionist groups, the corporate ...

Jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has begun a hunger strike after hearing that his mother Laila Soueif, 68, had been hospitalised after refusing food for more than 150 days, the ...