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Government to Review 'Information Failures' in British-Egyptian Activist Case

An urgent review is underway after ministers were unaware of decade-old tweets by activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, with calls to revoke his citizenship and an apology issued.

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Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says she and Sir Keir Starmer were unaware of Alaa Abd El Fattah's "abhorrent" historical tweets.

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Government to review 'information failures' in British-Egyptian activist case

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says she and Sir Keir Starmer were unaware of Alaa Abd El Fattah's "abhorrent" historical tweets.

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Cooper orders Foreign Office review of ‘serious failures’ in El-Fattah case

The Foreign Secretary said successive prime ministers were not briefed on tweets dating back as far as 2010 and civil servants were also unaware.

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UK government orders review after ministers "unaware" of Alaa Abd El Fattah's historical tweets

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper orders urgent FCDO review after discovering Prime Minister and ministers were never briefed on Egyptian-British activist's historical tweets when making public statements about long-running consular case.

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