LONDON - An Australian journalist, who was once jailed for 400 days in Egypt, said he is staging a hunger strike in London to press the British government to help secure the release of jailed Egyptian-British dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah.

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Former Australian prison mate of jailed Egyptian-British dissident goes on hunger strike

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Reporter Peter Greste is staging a hunger strike to press the UK government to help secure the release of jailed dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah in Egypt.

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Greste joins hunger strike for jailed Egypt dissident

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Hunger Strike Highlights Egyptian Activist's Plight in London Australian journalist Peter Greste has launched a hunger strike in London as part of a campaign to urge the British government to assist in the release of Egyptian-British dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Abd el-Fattah, a well-known software developer and blogger, gained renown as an activist during the 2011 Arab Spring. He is serving a five-year sentence in Egypt over a post on social m…

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Hunger Strike Highlights Egyptian Activist's Plight in London

An Australian journalist, who was once jailed for 400 days in Egypt, said he is staging a hunger strike in London to press the British government to help secure the release of jailed Egyptian-British dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah. Alaa Abdel Fattah, a software developer and blogger who rose to prominence as an activist in the 2011 Arab Spring, was jailed for five years in Egypt over a social media post, a sentence that followed several previous sp…

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Ex prison mate of jailed Alaa Abdel Fattah starts hunger strike

By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) – An Australian journalist, who was once jailed for 400 days in Egypt, said he is staging a hunger strike in London to press the British government to help secure the release of jailed Egyptian-British dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Abd el-Fattah, a software developer and blogger who rose to prominence as an activist in the 2011 Arab Spring, was jailed for five years in Egypt over a social media post, a senten…

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Former Australian prison mate of jailed Egyptian-British dissident goes on hunger strike

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