Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has told the BBC he regrets welcoming British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El Fattah to the UK, following the emergence of old social media posts which included calls to ...

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has launched a review into what she calls "serious information failures" in the case of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El Fattah. In a letter to the Foreign Affairs ...

Should Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s tweets have legal consequences? Comparing and contrasting the cases of Lucy Connolly and Abd El-Fattah By David Allen Green Is it possible to have a principled, consistent ...

Activist was entitled to UK passport but for a rising number of voters Britishness is something you are born with Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows What does ...

How much effort should a country expend to rescue someone who appears to hate its values? That is the question posed by the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Last week, those efforts finally paid off. Egypt ...

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LONDON - Activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, freed from prison in Egypt and now in Britain, apologised on Dec 29 for his “shocking and hurtful” social media posts made more than a decade ago, which have led ...

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British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah has arrived in the UK after Egyptian authorities lifted a long-standing travel ban, allowing him to leave the country following years of imprisonment and ...

Dec 29 (Reuters) - Activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, freed from prison in Egypt and now in Britain, apologised on Monday for his "shocking and hurtful" social media posts made more than a decade ago, which ...

British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has hit back at UK politicians calling for his citizenship to be removed after they cited a number of 15-year-old social media posts in which he appeared ...

08:01, Mon, Dec 29, 2025 Updated: 08:58, Mon, Dec 29, 2025 Egyptian dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah has claimed his abhorrent social media posts were "twisted out of their meaning" as calls intensify for ...