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Alaa’s release by way of a presidential pardon came after a long international solidarity campaign calling for his freedom and a 10-month hunger strike by his elderly mother.<\/em><\/p>\n Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi issued a pardon on Monday, September 22, for Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah<\/a> and five other prisoners, following an appeal from the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights (NCHR). Abd el-Fattah has been one of the most visible faces in the struggle to free the tens of…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Alaa’s release by way of a presidential pardon came after a long international solidarity campaign calling for his freedom and a 10-month hunger strike by his elderly mother. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi issued a pardon on Monday, September 22, for Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah and five other prisoners, following an appeal from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":208062,"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":[36512,8956,258,256,40938,415,51682,50559,257,5115,6499,254],"class_list":["post-208061","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-news","tag-egyptianbritish","tag-elfattah","tag-news","tag-prison","tag-released","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\/208061","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=208061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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