Overview

• State-aligned Al-Qahera News announced the decision, which his sisters Sanaa and Mona Seif publicly confirmed on X.
• Pardons committee lawyer Tarek al-Awady said procedures are complete and a direct release from Wadi Natroun is expected once the prison notes the order.
• Abdel-Fattah, 43, was last arrested in 2019 and sentenced to five years for a Facebook post about police violence after spending much of the past decade in detention.
• In July, an Egyptian court ordered his removal from the terrorism list, citing a lack of evidence linking him to the Muslim Brotherhood.
• UN experts and the UN human rights chief called his detention arbitrary, the UK pressed his case, and hunger strikes by him and his mother Laila Soueif amplified pressure.