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Rachel Hagan

Egypt has days to save jailed Brit citizen's life as world leaders decamp to COP27

Rishi Sunak has pledged to raise the plight of a detained British-Egyptian writer at the COP27 climate summit, after concerns he was days away from death.

Secretary General of Amnesty International, Agnes Callamard, said Egypt had no more than 72 hours to save the life of jailed dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah who is now on complete food and water strike.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Sunak wrote to the family of Abdel Fattah saying he would raise his imprisonment with the Egyptian government and reply again by the end of the climate summit.

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