Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah granted presidential pardon | Human Rights News

He was arrested in September 2019 and later sentenced in 2021 to five years in jail for “spreading false news”.

The Egyptian-British human rights activist and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been pardoned after almost six years in jail and hunger strikes by Abd el-Fattah and his mother.

The announcement was made on Monday in Egypt’s official gazette and came following an appeal from the National Council for…