Free Alaa News Today

Following an urgent appeal filed to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) on behalf of blogger and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, EFF has joined 26 free expression and human rights organizations calling for immediate action.The appeal to the UNWGAD was initially filed in...

Vigil to be held outside FCDO in support of pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah.

Please take a moment to sign this petition to demand the immediate release and safe passage of activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah!

Pressure is building on the Egyptian government to release British-Egyptian activist, Alaa Abdelfattah as he reaches day four of a thirst strike. At the beginning of this week, Alaa stopped drinkin...

Some 40 community members gathered at Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. on Monday night. Holding candles and signs, they called for the Egyptian military regime to release Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a British Egyptian writer and political prisoner.

The COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh has triggered a negative fallout for Egypt’s authoritarian regime which stands accused of human rights abuses -- and has been widely condemned for its lon

The 27th Conference Of Parties (COP27) on Climate Change comes at a time when we are facing unprecedented challenges due to the magnitude and the interconnected nature of our multiple structural crise

Amnesty International has warned that jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah's deteriorating health will likely dominate the COP27 summit in case Egyptian authorities fail to take the required steps. The writer has been on a hunger strike for over 200 days now and on Sunday even refused to drink water. Amnesty International Secretary-General Agnes Callamard said Sunday that the “extraordinarily severe human rights situation” in Egypt is “at the heart” of agenda of the C...

Jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah has stopped drinking water in a desperate attempt to push Egypt to allow him U.K. consular access.

Attendees at COP27 need to raise the case of the British-Egyptian writer before it's too late, say the activist's sisters