While in jail, he successfully applied for British ... to make Alaa’s urgent release a reality.” But pressuring the Egyptian authorities on individual cases can backfire, diplomats in Cairo ...

Jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah began a hunger strike at the start of the month after his mother was ...

The Egyptian national was also dismissed from his job and fined two million dinars, which is twice the amount he is accused of laundering after obtaining it from his employer and using it to purchase ...

Jailed for life in 1978 for killing an Israeli bus driver and still regarded by Israel as a dangerous enemy, Barghouti was deported to Egypt instead ... in an Israeli jail for plotting a suicide ...