Egypt: Grant Clemency to Alaa Abdel-Fattah

His Excellency Abdel Fattah el-SisiPresident of the Arab Republic of EgyptAl Ittihadiya PalaceCairo, Arab Republic of Egypt

We, a group of leaders from human rights organizations, writers, and public media figures, appeal to you to grant clemency to Egyptian-British writer Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who has spent nearly a decade in prison and now faces two more years in detention–despite grounds in Egyptian law that would have led his family to expect his release, taking into consideration the time he…