After UK calls for release of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, Sisi refuses call from Starmer  – Middle East Monitor

Egyptian parliamentarian and media figure Mustafa Bakri revealed an escalating diplomatic crisis between Egypt and the United Kingdom which culminated in President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s refusal to answer a phone call from the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer.

According to Bakri, Egypt categorically refused “interference in internal affairs” including London’s use of “arm-twisting” policy to demand the release of Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel…