US EditionEgyptian dissident sorry for tweets as Tories push for deportation from UK
Alaa Abdel Fattah apologized for historic tweets calling for violence and antisemitic remarks, prompting calls from UK politicians to revoke his citizenship and deport him.
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Human rights activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who returned to the United Kingdom on Friday after several years in prison in Egypt, apologized this Monday, December 29, for some old tweets that resurfaced, in which he called for violence against the "Zionists.""Looking at these tweets today, those who have not been completely distorted, I understand how shocking and injuring they are, and I apologize without reservation," said the Egyptian-British act…
'Anti-British' Egyptian activist now APOLOGISES for social media posts after mass outrage
Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has issued a grovelling apology for his social media posts after they became the centre of a major political firestorm.Mr Abd El-Fattah was flown to the UK from Egypt on Boxing Day - with a string of ministers issuing crowing statements welcoming him to Britain.But a series of posts condemned as "abhorrent" by Nigel Farage then came to light.In a dead-of-night statement, the activist admitted he "should have …
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