Alaa Abd El-Fattah
(asked on 20th May 2025) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made towards securing the release of Alaa Abdel Fattah from prison in Egypt.
Answered by
Lord Collins of Highbury
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 5th June 2025
The Government is committed to securing Mr El-Fattah's release and we continue to press his case at the highest levels of the Egyptian government. The Prime Minister raised Mr El-Fattah's case in a phone call to President Sisi on 22 May. I raised the case with Foreign Minister Abdelatty on 25 May, and with the Egyptian Ambassador on 31 May. The Foreign Secretary also raised the case with Foreign Minister Abdelatty on 1 June.