The Foreign Office is looking into the handling of the case of a democracy activist who recently arrived in the UK after years of imprisonment in Egypt, after the emergence of several historic tweets and growing calls for him to be deported.
Alaa Abd el-Fattah on Sunday night issued an “unequivocal” apology for several historic tweets, some of which appear to advocate violence against Zionists. But he maintained that other posts have been “completely twisted out of their meaning”.
