fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 day agoEgyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah granted presidential pardon
He was arrested in September 2019 and later sentenced in 2021 to five years in jail for spreading false news. The Egyptian-British human rights activist and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been pardoned after almost six years in jail and hunger strikes by Abd el-Fattah and his mother. The announcement was made on Monday in Egypt's official gazette and came following an appeal from the National Council for Human Rights, Al Qahera news reported.
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