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David Lynch

No 10 defends approach to Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s case amid calls for deportation

Laila Soueif (centre), the mother of the 40-year-old British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Archive)

Downing Street has defended Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s entry into the UK, insisting the Government would welcome the return of any citizen “unfairly detained abroad”.

The activist, who was recently released after years of detention in Egypt, previously wrote tweets which appeared to show him calling for violence against Zionists and the police.

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