Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned high-profile Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, along with five other prisoners, after a lengthy imprisonment and repeated hunger strikes that prompted international pleas for his release, his lawyer said on Monday.
Abd el-Fattah, 43, has become Egypt’s most prominent political prisoner after spending much of his adult life in and out of detention due to his activism, and a rare symbol of opposition
