Mona Seif, the sister of writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British-Egyptian activist imprisoned in Egypt, at a sit-in outside the Foreign Office in London. Picture date: Tuesday October 18, 2022.
MORE than 60 MPs and peers are calling on Foreign Secretary James Cleverly to step up action to secure the release of a British human rights activist imprisoned in Egypt.
The family of Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who received a five-year sentence last year after being accused of spreading false news about the regime of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, warned today that the activist is “losing hope that the British government intends to do anything to save him.”
“We write now to ask for urgency,” says the letter to Mr Cleverly, penned by the family’s local Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft and signed by 64 cross-party MPs and peers.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
