Alaa Abd el-Fattah: UN demands release of Egyptian democracy activist
INTERNATIONAL The UN has demanded the Egyptian government release imprisoned activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who is currently refusing both food and water while incarcerated. Abd el-Fattah was an icon of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and has spent eight of the past 10 years in jail on various charges. He was rearrested in September 2019, and again in December 2021, when he was sentenced to five years in prison by an emergency state […]