In a highly unusual clarification, the Supreme Court has said it played no role in the 2021 decision that led to the award of UK citizenship to the Egyptian political activist whose arrival in the UK ...

Government sources say social media posts by British-Egyptian activist do not meet legal bar for such sanction The Home Office will not strip the British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his ...

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Downing Street has said it was right for a freed British-Egyptian activist to apologise following the discovery of "abhorrent" social media posts. The historical tweets by Alaa Abd El-Fattah emerged ...

Alaa Abd El-Fattah is facing calls to be stripped of his British citizenship despite the activist's apology for historic tweets in which he appeared to call for violence against Zionists and the ...

British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has hit back at UK politicians calling for his citizenship to be removed after they cited a number of 15-year-old social media posts in which he appeared ...

The Tories today dismissed an 'insincere' apology from a 'scumbag' Egyptian dissident over vile tweets as they stepped up demands for his deportation. Alaa Abd El-Fattah's arrival in the UK on Boxing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alaa Abd El-Fattah pictured in Cairo in September after his release from prison. (Getty Images) (picture alliance via Getty Images ...

Keir Starmer is facing calls to strip Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his UK citizenship, days after the British-Egyptian dissident touched down in the UK following his release from an Egyptian jail. In the ...

Democracy activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah has apologised “unequivocally” for several historic tweets in which he appears to call for violence towards Zionists, but said some of the posts have been ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing demands for a British-Egyptian human rights activist to be deported and his UK citizenship to be revoked after social media posts emerged in which he called for ...