Egypt's most prominent political prisoner, Alaa Abd el-Fattah â whose name became synonymous with the crushed hopes of the Arab Spring â is finally on the brink of freedom. President Abdel-Fattah ...

Egypt’s president on Monday pardoned a British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist who rose to prominence during the country’s 2011 revolution and has spent more than a decade in prison. Alaa Abdel-Fattah ...

Egypt’s best-known political prisoner, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, was granted a presidential pardon on Monday and has reunited with his family after spending most of the last 12 years in prison. The writer ...

Egyptian authorities on Monday announced the presidential pardon of prominent activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, according to his lawyer Khaled Ali and an announcement by Egypt’s state TV Prominent Egyptian ...

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Monday ordered an urgent review into what she said were "serious information failures" ...

CAIRO (Reuters) – Hosni Mubarak, who died on Tuesday, never expected to be president. But when a very public assassination thrust the former bomber pilot into the job, he made it his mission never to ...

A British-Egyptian activist has apologised for resurfaced social media posts in which he called for violence against Zionists ...

Cairo — Egyptian authorities on Monday announced the presidential pardon of prominent activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, according to his lawyer Khaled Ali and an announcement by Egypt’s state TV. Abd ...