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Prominent British-Egyptian democracy advocate Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been freed after years of detention. His release follows a petition from Egypt\u2019s human rights council and increased international pressure. <\/em><\/p>\n Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi<\/a>\u00a0on Monday granted a presidential pardon to British-Egyptian dual national\u00a0activist and blogger Alaa Abd el-Fattah.<\/p>\n Abd el-Fattah\u00a0was expected to be released from prison after his sentence ended in September 2024, but he has remained in custody…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Prominent British-Egyptian democracy advocate Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been freed after years of detention. His release follows a petition from Egypt\u2019s human rights council and increased international pressure. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi\u00a0on Monday granted a presidential pardon to British-Egyptian dual national\u00a0activist and blogger Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Abd el-Fattah\u00a0was expected to be released from prison […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":207998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671485:48354e3623f8c8222736a98205746ff2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[36512,8956,258,256,40938,4697,415,50559,5696,257,5287,254],"class_list":["post-207997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-abd","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alaa","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-elfattah","tag-jailed","tag-news","tag-pardons","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671485:48354e3623f8c8222736a98205746ff2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207997","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=207997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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