The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Egyptian authorities to release Alaa Abdelfattah, a prominent Egyptian-British blogger and writer, upon completion of his five-year prison sentence this Sunday, September 29.
Washington, D.C. — Abdelfattah was arrested on September 28, 2019, and in December 2021, he was sentenced to five years in prison, starting from his arrest date, on accusations of spreading false news and undermining state security.
Abdelfattah's family and his campaign for release wrote on social media platform X,"We hope that the law will be respected and Alaa will be freed and reunited with his son, Khaled." Egyptian authorities' failure to release Abdelfattah by September 29 would be in violation of articles 482 and 484 of the country's Criminal Procedure Law.
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