British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said that she would work hard for the release of prominent Egyptian-British dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah, and that she would like to discuss his case with her Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry.
The minister added that she is looking forward to raising the case of Alaa Abdel Fattah during Shoukry's visit to London soon.
It is noteworthy that Alaa Abdel-Fattah was one of the prominent figures in the Egyptian revolution in 2011, and was convicted of 5 years in prison for spreading false news at the end of last year, and obtained British citizenship while in prison.
Abdel-Fattah’s family had announced that Alaa and his two sisters had applied for British citizenship since 2019, based on the fact that their mother, a professor of mathematics at Cairo University Lily Souef, obtained British citizenship after she was born there in 1956.
The family added that it had requested a British passport for Abdel-Fattah to be a way out for him from his "impossible" ordeal, in reference to the possibility of his release after this development.
In a statement signed on behalf of his two sisters, Mona and Sana, the family said that, as a British citizen, Abdel Fattah demands visits to a British consulate in his prison and communication with lawyers in Britain so that they can “take measures before the British judiciary regarding the violations he has been subjected to and all crimes against humanity over the years.” aphasia".