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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Maira Butt

‘She could lose her life’: Husband of British mother-of-four detained on Egypt trip makes emotional plea to PM

Eman el-Shazly, pictured with her husband Zesharn Moustapha, has been detained for more than a month - (Supplied/Zesharn Moustapha)

The husband of a British mother-of-four who has been detained in a maximum-security facility in Egypt for six weeks has urged the UK government to help secure her release.

Eman el-Shazly, 45, had travelled to Cairo to visit her mother when she was taken by Egyptian security forces on 17 August, according to her husband Zesharn Moustapha.

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