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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
A Labour Party lawmaker on Friday became the first parliamentarian to publicly call on the British government to help free imprisoned Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah since he became a UK citizen. Zarah Sultana, who represents the Coventry South constituency in England, shared via Twitter a letter she sent to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss about the plight of the Egyptian-British prisoner, who has now been on hunger strike for more than a month. “The UK government must urgently secure Alaa’s release,” Sultana said on Twitter. Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a leading Egyptian human rights defender & a Br…