{"id":192755,"date":"2025-03-04T03:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T01:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-pm-call-to-president-sisi-on-alaa-abdel-fattah-welcome-but-pressure-must-continue-at-this-critical-time\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T03:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T01:02:04","slug":"egypt-pm-call-to-president-sisi-on-alaa-abdel-fattah-welcome-but-pressure-must-continue-at-this-critical-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-pm-call-to-president-sisi-on-alaa-abdel-fattah-welcome-but-pressure-must-continue-at-this-critical-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: PM Call to President Sisi On Alaa Abdel Fattah &#8216;Welcome&#8217; but Pressure Must Continue At This Critical Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>Keir Starmer raised case of Alaa Abdel Fattah during a call with Egyptian President today<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><strong>The timing is urgent &#8211; Alaa&#8217;s mother, Laila Soueif, is critically ill in hospital having spent more than 150 days on hunger strike<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><strong>&#8220;This cannot be a moment where too little action is taken too late&#8221; &#8211; Sacha Deshmukh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Responding to news that the Prime Minister pressed for the release of jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/pm-call-with-president-of-egypt-abdel-fattah-el-sisi-28-february-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a phone call<\/a> with the President of Egypt this afternoon, Sacha&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503030191.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keir Starmer raised case of Alaa Abdel Fattah during a call with Egyptian President today The timing is urgent &#8211; Alaa&#8217;s mother, Laila Soueif, is critically ill in hospital having spent more than 150 days on hunger strike &#8220;This cannot be a moment where too little action is taken too late&#8221; &#8211; Sacha Deshmukh Responding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":192756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[13680,258,256,40938,6880,8005,7129,4697,415,22459,257,2450,15578,340,254,6599],"class_list":["post-192755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-abdel","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alaa","tag-call","tag-continue","tag-critical","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-fattah","tag-news","tag-president","tag-pressure","tag-sisi","tag-south-africa-today","tag-time"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}