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Alaa Abd El-Fattah

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Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN 12813, tabled on 2 February 2024

Question

Daniel Zeichner
Labour
Cambridge
Commons

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent progress he has made on securing the release of imprisoned pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah.

Answer

David Rutley
Conservative
Macclesfield
Commons

Answered on

8 February 2024

Ministers and officials continue to raise Mr Alaa Abd El-Fattah's case at the highest levels with the Egyptian government and have been consistently clear in our calls for his release, while continuing to press the need for urgent consular access. The Foreign Secretary and Minister of State for the Middle East, Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon raised his case with President Sisi and Egyptian Foreign Minister Shoukry on 21 December 2023. The Prime Minister also recently raised Mr El-Fattah's case with President Sisi on 1 December 2023.

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