Forty-year-old Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah has embarked on a hunger strike to the death. A leader of the 2011 Arab Spring in Cairo’s Tahrir Square that overthrew the longtime, ...
Ahmed Shawkat is a CBS News producer based in Cairo. He has worked for CBS News since 2016, prior to which he worked with several European networks including TVE, ZDF, SVT and Yle. More than a decade ...
The deteriorating health of jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah will dominate the upcoming COP27 summit if Egyptian authorities fail to intervene, Amnesty International has warned.
In the summer of 2011, several months after the protest-led ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, I participated in a program on Al Jazeera’s English-language channel called The Café. The setup ...
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A Briton unlawfully jailed in Eygpt will starve himself of food and water when the Cop27 climate summit gets underway in Sharm el Sheikh next week. Alaa-Abdel Fattah, 40, has been consuming 100 ...
Syed was a reporter for TIME, based in the London bureau. Sanaa Seif, sister of Egyptian-British jailed activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who is on a hunger and water strike, gives a statement after her ...
A woman with gray hair steadily walks toward the gate as if on a mission or path she set for herself. She moves with an unstoppable force that acquires its own momentum, splitting the air around her ...
I first knew Alaa Abd el-Fattah as a disembodied voice whispering through the bars of the steel door to my cell in Cairo’s notorious Tora Prison. It was early in January 2014, and I and two colleagues ...