British-Egyptian activist reunited with family
Anglo-Make Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah was released with his family after almost six years of imprisonment in Egypt and reunited.
He was forgiven by President Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi on Monday after a request from the National Human Rights Council, one of the leading political prisoners in the country.
The video of the blogger and the pro -democracy activist shows that he jumped up and down with his sister and mother at home after being released.
Laila Soueif, who continued his comprehensive hunger strike during his son’s imprisonment, said: “Despite our great joy, the greatest joy, no [political] Prisoners. “
Abdel Fattah was released late on Monday from Wadi Al-Natrun prison and celebrated to reunite with his family in his mother’s apartment in Giza.
Orum I can’t understand that it’s real yet, “his sister said Sanaa Seif.
In 2019, the activist was arrested during a pressure on the opposition and was sentenced to five years in prison after he was sentenced to “spreading false news” for sharing a task about a prisoner who died of torture.
Two weeks ago, Sisi ordered the authorities to examine their petitions for the release of Nchr’s Abdel Fattah and the institution. ” [their] Families “.
His family said that he should be released in September 2024, but that the two years he spent in custody before the trial were not counted as the time given by the Egyptian officials.
When Abdel Fattah was not released at the end of his five -year sentence, his mother Laila Soueif launched a wide hunger strike to release.
He was hospitalized at the hospital of St Thomas in London and approached death twice during a 287 -day strike, which he said on July 14 that the secretary David Lammy was waiting for Parliament. [Abdel Fattah] It will be published on June 25th.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer previously said that Abdel Fattah would secure his freedom and that he had a widespread parliamentary support for his release.
It is unclear whether Abdel Fattah could travel to England to be with his son, but his sister said that his release would feel more real “when his son came from traveling here.
The activist first came to the forefront during the 2011 uprising in Egypt for a long time forcing President Hosni Mübarak to resign.
He has spent most of his time in prison since 2014, leading the overthrow of Sisi’s army’s first democratically elected President of Egypt, Mohammed Mersi, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Sisi supervised what the human rights groups said, and an unprecedented pressure on the opposition that led to the detention of tens of thousands of people.
Although he acquired British citizenship in 2021, Egypt never allowed him to visit a consular by British diplomats.
In May, the UN arbitrary detention working group – Independent Human Rights Experts Panel – Abdel Fattah was arbitrary arbitrarily arrested for exercising the right to freedom of expression, that he was not given a fair trial and was detained for his political views.
According to the panel, the Egyptian government said that he was given “all fair trial rights” and his sentence would be completed in January 2027.
