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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ruth Michaelson

MPs and peers urge UK government to do more to free jailed activist in Egypt

Alaa Abd el-Fattah smiles as he sits outside in the sunshine
Abd el-Fattah, a 41-year-old British-Egyptian activist, held a months-long hunger strike in prison last year. Photograph: Omar Robert Hamilton/Reuters

More than 100 MPs and peers have written to the foreign secretary to express concern over the lack of progress to free a jailed British-Egyptian activist.

It comes seven months after the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, shook hands with Egypt’s president, Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi, while Alaa Abd el-Fattah was close to death due to a hunger strike.

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