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Sisi Orders Review of Pardon Petition Including Alaa Abdel Fattah

The step initiates a discretionary review prompted by sustained international pressure.

Australian journalist Peter Greste, arrested and imprisoned in Egypt in 2013 while reporting for Al Jazeera, stands with Laila Soueif, mother of jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, as he joins her on hunger strike to protest against el-Fattah’s detention in Egypt, outside Downing Street in London, Britain, January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Isabel Infantes/File Photo
Signage to support Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah is displayed during the hunger strike of Laila Soueif to protest against her son's detention in Egypt, outside Downing Street in Westminster in London, Britain, February 10, 2025. REUTERS/Jaimi Joy/File Photo
(FILES) Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah speaks to the press following his release from the police headquarters in Cairo in December 2011
Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah poses for a photo in unknown location, in this undated handout image obtained by Reuters on November 8, 2022. Courtesy of Omar Robert Hamilton/Handout via REUTERS/ File Photo

Overview

  • Egypt’s state-affiliated National Council for Human Rights said the president asked authorities to study its appeal seeking pardons for several convicts, including the dual Egyptian–British activist.
  • The presidency offered no comment, and the process carries no guarantee of release as decisions rest solely with the president.
  • Abdel Fattah began a hunger strike at the start of September after months of partial fasting, while his mother ended a 10‑month strike in July.
  • He is serving a five-year sentence from 2021 for “spreading false news,” with more than two years of pretrial detention not credited, leaving him held until 2027 according to local reporting.
  • A criminal court removed his name from Egypt’s terrorism list in July, while the UN deems his detention arbitrary and the UK says it continues to raise the case with Cairo.