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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

Yvette Cooper orders Foreign Office to review ‘serious failures’ in Alaa Abd el-Fattah case

Yvette Cooper has ordered an urgent Foreign Office review into “serious information failures” surrounding the case of a democracy activist who recently arrived in the UK after years of imprisonment in Egypt, following the emergence of several “abhorrent” social media posts.

Alaa Abd el-Fattah has faced growing calls to be deported after the emergence of several historic tweets which appeared to call for violence against Zionists and police.

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