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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour

‘I deserve to heal’: freed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah on his prison ordeal and next steps

Alaa Abd el-Fattah embraces his mother, Laila Soueif, at his home in front of press and well-wishers after his release.
Alaa Abd el-Fattah embraces his mother, Laila Soueif, at his home in front of press and well-wishers after his release. Photograph: Sayed Hassan/Getty Images

The British-Egyptian human rights activist and writer, released from more than a decade in continuous detention in Cairo, has said he wants to come to the UK to be with his autistic 14-year-old son.

Alaa Abd el-Fattah said he feared his mother might have died on hunger strike during the 12 years he spent in what he described as a “vortex of incarceration”.

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