For some political detainees in Egypt, a second nationality can be a matter of life or death, especially when pressure from Western governments becomes the last hope for possible freedom. In Egypt, ...

The deteriorating health of jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah will dominate the upcoming COP27 summit if Egyptian authorities fail to intervene, Amnesty International has warned.

Activists staged a "read-in" calling for the release of Egypt's political prisoners outside the British Museum during a preview this morning for the upcoming exhibition Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient ...

Amnesty International chief Agnes Callamard said on Sunday that authorities had less than three days to save Alaa Abdel-Fattah's life. The warning comes amid growing fears over the deteriorating ...

The prominent British Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah remains imprisoned in Cairo even after he completed his five-year sentence last September. Fattah came to prominence during the Egyptian ...

Egypt has said thousands of artefacts can remain in British museums, but renewed its calls for the Rosetta Stone to be returned. Mohamed Ismail Khaled, the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council ...