Egypt Should Release Prominent Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah

Abdel Fattah Remains Imprisoned Beyond His Five-Year Sentence

Alaa Abdel Fattah, the British-Egyptian writer and activist, should have been released on September 29 after serving an unjust five-year prison sentence. Instead, Egyptian authorities have kept him imprisoned, refusing to count over two years he spent in pretrial detention toward his time served. After spending most of the last decade behind bars, authorities told his lawyer he won’t reunite with his family until 2027.

Abdel Fattah rose…