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Egypt Lifts Travel Ban on Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah

Summary by The New Arab
Egypt's attorney general lifted a travel ban on prominent Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, his lawyer Khaled Ali told AFP on Saturday, following a request submitted on his behalf. A key figure in Egypt's 2011 uprising, the 44-year-old was granted a presidential pardon and released in September after nearly a decade in prison. His release followed years of advocacy efforts by his family, rights groups and the British government, with …

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Egyptian justice lifted a travel ban on the well-known Egyptian-British human rights activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, said his lawyer on Saturday.An emblematic figure of the 2011 uprising against President Hosni Mubarak's power in Egypt, Alaa Abdel-Fattah, 44, spent most of the last decade behind bars.In September, he received a pardon granted by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi after long months of wait and intense mobilization.Travel banDespite this…

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After years of detention and restrictions, Alaa Abd El-Fattah will be able to join her family in the United Kingdom and receive the Magnitsky Prize alongside her mother.

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Cairo – “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”: The Egyptian Public Prosecutor has approved the removal of the name of Egyptian-British political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah from the travel ban lists, based on a request submitted by his lawyer. The Cairo Criminal Court had decided last July to remove Alaa Abdel Fattah's name from the terrorism lists. According to the decision published in the official gazette at the time, this entails […]

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القدس العربي broke the news in on Saturday, December 20, 2025.
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