British-Egyptian Activist Apologizes for Tweets, Opponents Push for Deportation

Alaa Abd El Fattah Apologizes Amid Calls for Deportation from the UK

Alaa Abd El Fattah, a prominent British-Egyptian activist recently pardoned from prison by the Egyptian President, has apologized for controversial tweets that have resurfaced following his arrival in the United Kingdom.  These past posts, made between 2008 and 2014, have brought out strong reactions from various British political figures, who are now calling for the stripping of his British citizenship and his deportation. The tweets in questio…

No 10 defends approach to Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s case amid calls for deportation

The activist, recently released after years of detention in Egypt, wrote tweets which appeared to show him calling for violence against Zionists.

UK MPs dig up decade-old tweets to demand rights activist lose citizenship

Writer Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who faced years of imprisonment in Egypt, ‘unequivocally’ apologises for the tweets.

UK Political Storm: Calls for Activist's Citizenship Stripped After Controversial Tweets

UK Political Storm: Calls for Activist's Citizenship Stripped After Controversial Tweets In recent developments, political opposition leaders in the United Kingdom have intensively campaigned for human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah to be stripped of his British citizenship. The initiative follows the unearthing of past social media posts purportedly containing antisemitic and violent rhetoric.Conservative and Reform party leaders are at the…

A political prisoner’s return to the UK was lauded by the government. Now ‘shocking’ tweets have sparked calls to deport him

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing demands for a British-Egyptian human rights activist to be deported and his UK citizenship to be revoked after social media posts emerged in which he called for “Zionists” to be killed, prompting criticism of successive British governments that campaigned for his release from prison in Egypt.

U.K. opposition leaders demand human rights activist be stripped of citizenship for past tweets

Political opposition leaders in the United Kingdom have called for a human rights activist to be stripped of his citizenship over past social media posts allegedly containing violent and antisemitic language within days of the dual national returning to Britain after years in Egyptian prisons.