Egyptian Journalist Rasha Qandeel Charged with Spreading ‘False News’ After Political Reports.  - Committee to Protect Journalists

Egyptian journalist Rasha Qandeel charged with spreading ‘false news’ after political reports.  - Committee to Protect Journalists

Washington, D.C., May 29, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Egyptian authorities to end the prosecution of journalist Rasha Qandeel, who was summoned May 25, interrogated, and charged with “spreading and broadcasting false news inside and outside the country” after her reports on Egypt’s social, political and economic developments for the independent media platform Sotour. The Supreme State Security Prosecution released Qandeel …

UN panel calls for ’arbitrarily detained’ Egypt hunger striker’s release

A United Nations panel of experts said Wednesday British-Egyptian prisoner Alaa Abdel Fattah is being arbitrarily detained in Egypt and called for his immediate release. Abdel Fattah, who has been on hunger strike since March 1, has spent most of the past decade behind bars, most recently serving a five-year sentence for "spreading false news". His mother, Laila Soueif, has been on her own hunger strike since September, when Abdel Fattah's sente…

UN panel finds detention of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah illegal

British-Egyptian writer and human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah is being unlawfully detained by the Egyptian government, according to an investigation by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Following the 18-month investigation, the panel concluded that his arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment violated international human rights law and constituted a clear attempt to silence a prominent government critic. Abd el-Fattah,…

UN panel rules Alaa Abd el-Fattah's detention illegal under international law

The Free Alaa campaign says landmark decision is grounds for UK to take Egypt to International Court of Justice

Egypt is illegally detaining Alaa Abd el-Fattah, UN investigation finds

UN investigators requested that the Egyptian government “take the steps necessary to remedy the situation of Mr. Abd el-Fattah without delay”

London: The mother of the Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah was admitted to hospital 242 days after she started a hunger strike to protest her son ' s detention in Egypt, according to her family ' s announcement on Thursday.