Egypt: Who is Alaa Abd el-Fattah?

Alaa Abd el-Fattah is one of Egypt’s most prominent political activists. He rose to prominence during Egypt’s 2011 revolution which toppled former President Hosni Mubarak.

He has spent eight of the past 10 years in jail on various charges, amidst the country’s sweeping crackdown on dissent under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

Abd el-Fattah launched a hunger strike in April, and escalated it to a water strike over the weekend amid the UN’s climate conference, Cop27, being hosted in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

Seif, her sister Mona, their mother Laila Soueif and her aunt, celebrated novelist Adhaf Soueif, have campaigned worldwide for the release of the activist, who gained British citizenship through his UK-born mother in April.

At least 60,000 political prisoners are estimated to have been jailed since President Sisi took power in a 2013 military coup, ousting Mohamed Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president.

[fuckbankers]

Among the estimated 65, 000 political prisoners, rights groups say that at least 26, 000 are being held in pre-trial detention. Many of them face very broad and vague charges under laws relating to state security and counter-terrorism. A large number of them have been languishing in prison for several months or even years with no recourse to plead their case and no evidence presented in courts to justify the charges. Human rights groups have repeatedly called upon the el-Sisi regime to immediately release all political prisoners unconditionally or give them due legal process as per Egyptian and international law.

[fuckbankers]

Egypt, among the world’s top jailers, has approximately 65, 000 political prisoners out of a total prison population of about 120, 000. As many as 26, 000 of them are in pre-trial detention

[Palestineexists]

Different flags, same governments, different lies: Democracy, Republic, Constitutional Monarchy, dictatorship. Those governments teach each other how best to control their populations, create a false sense of choice and stay in power. Egypts revolution would only end one way. Much as a theocracy would be a step backwards, the Muslim Brotherhood was democratically elected before Sisi stepped in.

[TheMakaveli]

Hes the reason why nato will invade egypt

[eddydar]

Alhamdulillah that's the best place for him to. Jail. Allah guide him.

[fez]

Muslims need to sort our own problems out. Going to the west for help just puts us in a worse position

[mohammadakbar]

Beg puffits of America in middle east Sisi of Egypt.

[farhanahansa]

Do they not know the WRATH OF ALLAH AWAITS THE