Alaa Abd el-Fattah: MPs and peers call for Egypt travel advice to be changed following 'lack of progress' over jailed activist

, a dual UK-Egpyt citizen, has been under lock and key in North Africa for nine of the past 11 years.

He became a prominent pro-democracy activist during the Tahrir Square demonstrations in Cairo in 2011 which led to the downfall of then president Hosni Mubarak. He was sentenced to five years behind bars in December 2021 for sharing a Facebook post about human rights abuses in Egyptian prisons in 2019.A letter signed by 100 MPs and peers will be submitted to the UK Foreign Office calling on Foreign Secretary James Cleverly to take action.

This includes wanting the UK to lead a joint statement on Egypt at the UN, and also changing the travel advice for British people visiting the country.

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