 Egypt has still not granted the UK consular access to him, despite British and Egyptian officials working closely together on planning for the climate summit, as Britain hosted last year. Abdel-Fattah wrote to his mother last week: 'On Sunday November 6 I shall drink my last glass of water. What will follow is unknown. I struggle for my freedom . . . and for the victims of a regime that's unable to handle its crises except with oppression. I am flooded with your love and longing for your company.' Computer programmer and author Abdel-Fattah is well known in Egypt as a giant figure in the 2011 revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak, the ex-despot of Egypt. Amnesty International secretary-general Agnes Callamard ( AFP via Getty Images) The dad-of-one is currently serving five years in prison for 'spreading false news', for sharing a social media post about torture. He gained British citizenship from his mother last year while incarcerated in a desert prison two hours outside Cairo){kind=link}
Rishi Sunak said he would raise Alaa Abdel Fattah’s imprisonment with the Egyptian government and reply again by the end of COP27, but human rights organisations and his family say it will be too late then
Rishi Sunak has pledged to raise the plight of a detained British-Egyptian writer at the COP27 climate summit, after concerns he was days away from death.
Secretary General of Amnesty International, Agnes Callamard, said Egypt had no more than 72 hours to save the life of jailed dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah who is now on complete food and water strike.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Sunak wrote to the family of Abdel Fattah saying he would raise his imprisonment with the Egyptian government and reply again by the end of the climate summit.
But human rights organisations and his family said it would be too late by the end of the summit.