We, a group of leaders from human rights organizations, writers, and public media figures, appeal to you to grant clemency to ...

A day after a New Jersey judge delivered a sweeping rebuke to the team prosecuting the criminal racketeering case against ...

A group of UN-affiliated human rights experts on Thursday called on Egypt to immediately release jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, as fears grow for the life of his mother, who is on ...

Alaa Abdel Fattah, a prominent writer and pro-democracy activist, is one of Egypt’s highest-profile prisoners. Laila Soueif, ...

Abd el-Fattah, a key figure in the 2011 Egyptian revolution which ousted then-President Hosni Mubarak, has spent the best part of a decade behind bars. On 29 September, Abd el-Fattah was due to ...

The mother of jailed British-Egyptian dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been taken to hospital as she neared the 150th day of a hunger strike in protest against her son's imprisonment in Egypt.

Laila Soueif, the mother of jailed Egyptian British author and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, has been hospitalized in London after nearly 150 days on hunger strike. The 68-year-old human rights ...

In urging the Foreign Secretary to make a stand for Abd el-Fattah’s release, the organisations say: “We remain deeply concerned that Alaa Abd el-Fattah still has not been released after completing his ...

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Shortly after she graduated, she received a call from someone asking about her interest in joining Congressman Chaka Fattah’s exploratory committee. Fattah, then a member of the United States House of ...