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23 hours agoUK MPs dig up decade-old tweets to demand rights activist lose citizenship
In a lengthy apology posted online, the writer and blogger who returned to Britain this week after 12 years of imprisonment in Egypt said the tweets were shocking and hurtful, but added that some had been completely twisted. The tweets were expressions of a young man's anger and frustrations in a time of regional crises, including the wars on Iraq and Gaza, and a pervasive culture of online insult battles, Abd El-Fattah wrote. Still, I should have known better, he said.
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