Just weeks after the video was filmed, Mohammad Aljaleel (known to everyone as Alaa) watched helplessly as his cat sanctuary was first bombed, then chlorine-gassed, during the intense final stages ...

Alaa, a British National, is a writer and a father of a young son who was born while Alaa was in prison. Alaa advocated for human rights in Egypt, and has been unjustly imprisoned since 2019 for his ...

Alaa Abdel Fattah, seen here in May 2019, has spent most of the past decade in prison An Egyptian court has sentenced leading activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to five years in prison after convicting ...

International organisations have urged UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy to hold off on any new economic partnerships with Egypt until British-Egyptian writer and political prisoner Alaa Abd el ...

Egyptian-British writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been named Writer of Courage 2024 by the association of writers, English PEN. The award was announced by Indian writer Arundhati Roy at a ...