Calls Intensify for Release of Egyptian Activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah as Sentence Nears End

Rights groups and family urge Egypt to free Abdel-Fattah, who faces potential extended detention despite completing his five-year term.

Alaa Abdel-Fattah, a prominent Egyptian-British activist, is set to complete his five-year prison sentence on September 29, 2024.
Rights organizations and his family are pressing for his release, fearing authorities may extend his detention until 2027.
Abdel-Fattah has been a key figure in Egypt's pro-democracy movement since the 2011 Arab Spring and has spent most of the past decade in prison.
Authorities have been accused of using pretrial detention and new charges to unjustly prolong the imprisonment of political dissidents.
His previous hunger strike during COP27 highlighted Egypt's harsh crackdown on dissent, drawing international attention to his plight.