The Egyptian President pardoning the prominent activist Al -Ola Abdel -Fateh after spent years behind bars

The President of the British British and National Egyptians have been forgiven Alaa Abdel-FattahWhich was imprisoned for a better part than the past decade after participating in the 2011 uprising.

Egyptian President Abdel Fahia Al -Sisi issued a pardon for the 43 -year -old activist who became one of the most prominent political prisoners in the country. Five others were also pardoned.

“The Egyptian president issues amnesty for the remainder of the prison sentence for a number of convicts, after taking constitutional and legal measures in this regard,” Al -Qahira newspaper, which is linked to government intelligence services in Egypt.

The United Nations has repeatedly called for his immediate release and called for his arbitrary detention. The British government also filed the case of Abdel Fahia with the Egyptian authorities, including during the talks between Prime Minister Kiir Starmer and Sisi.

He was initially sentenced to five years in prison in 2014 and was released in early 2019, but he was rehabilitated only months after his release, and he was sentenced to another five years in prison.

The amnesty comes on Monday a few days after SISI ordered the authorities related to a petition to study by the National Council of the State for Human Rights to pardon a number of individuals, including Abd al -Fah.

This was also followed by a decision from a criminal court in Cairo to remove Abdul Fahia from the terrorist list in the country, and issued that recent investigations did not show any evidence linking him to the banned Muslim Brotherhood group.

The decision also comes at a time when the mother of Abd al -Fah, an activist and academy, has ended a 10 -month hunger strike, calling for the release of her son.

Abd al -Fateh himself was On the hunger strike Since the beginning of September, after a partial kick in March in solidarity with his mother.