Government condemns freed Egyptian activist’s ‘disgusting’ social media posts

Government condemns freed Egyptian activist’s ‘disgusting’ social media posts

The government has condemned an activist’s “abhorrent” social media posts which sparked a backlash after his return to the UK from detention in Egypt. Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a British-Egyptian citizen, was detained in Egypt in September 2019. In December 2021, he was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of spreading fake news. His … Read more