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And Hossam has also been very outspoken in the case of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who is Egypt’s most prominent political prisoner. He’s been in prison near constantly since 2013.

She is frail, her voice barely audible. But she is resolute. The man is her son, imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who played a key role in the 2011 Egyptian ...

Laila Soueif, 68, from Streatham, is pressing for her son's release. Her son, Alaa Abd El Fattah's, a British-Egyptian activist and writer. He was meant to be released in September 2024 after a ...

Alaa is still in there, against Egypt’s own laws. The foreign secretary, as far as the family is concerned, really needs to be using more robust economic tools to get Alaa out.

An Australian journalist, who was once jailed for 400 days in Egypt, said he is staging a hunger strike in London to press the British government to help secure the release of jailed Egyptian-British ...

For Ilaaf Hammoud, finding a hairdresser can be challenging. She said many salons don't actively market themselves as hijab-friendly, so it can be "hard to tell if they will respect my needs".