22/7/2025–|Last update: 08:52 (Mecca time)
The Cairo Criminal Court ruled, yesterday, Monday, to remove the name of the prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel -Fattah From the list of terrorist entities, in a move that lifted a number of legal restrictions, without becoming clear whether it is paved to release him after years of prison.
The decision, issued by the first department, “terrorism” in the Badr Criminal Court, came based on what the court described as “investigations that Abdel Fattah did not continue any activity in favor of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood,” according to Egyptian media.
Alaa Abdel -Fattah, 43, is one of the most prominent symbols January 25, 2011 revolutionAnd he spent most of the past decades between prisons, as it was last was arrested in 2019, and he was sentenced to 5 years in prison in a Facebook post talking about police violence.
Despite the expiration of his sentence, Abdel -Fattah has not yet been released, at a time when the court raised some legal restrictions imposed on him, including the freezing of assets and the prohibition of travel, but his fate is still overwhelming.
Laila Suef
The human rights lawyer, Khaled Ali, who took over Abdel -Fattah for years, confirmed the decision, without official clarifications regarding the release arrangements or his continued detention.
The court’s decision came about a week after the end of Alaa’s mother, the 69 -year -old academy, the academy of Laila Suef, a 10 -month -old hunger strike, which she had started in September 2024 to protest against the continued imprisonment of her son after the end of his sentence.
In March, Abdel -Fattah himself entered a partial hunger strike in solidarity with his mother, and still depends on his feeding on herbal tea, black coffee, and dehydration salts only.
Last May, a UN committee considered that Abdel -Fattah’s detention was “arbitrary” and demanded an immediate release.
Despite the continuous diplomatic efforts from the British side – the rule of Abdel -Fattah British – including recent talks between the British Prime Minister Care Starmer And the Egyptian president Abdel -Fattah Al -SisiThese moves have not yet been led to a solution to its cause.