President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has\u00a0pardoned\u00a0prominent British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who had been imprisoned for six years.<\/p>\n
Abdel Fattah was expected to be released from prison after his sentence ended in September 2024, but he remained in custody in Egypt.\u00a0He was arrested in 2019 during a crackdown on dissent and sentenced to five years in 2021 after being convicted of “spreading false news” for sharing a post about a prisoner who died after torture.<\/p>\n
The pardon came just days after al-Sisi asked officials to review a petition from the National Council for Human Rights seeking clemency for several detainees, including Abdel Fattah. A Cairo criminal court had also recently removed him from the country’s terrorism list, saying there was no evidence tying him to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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