Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 51104

Alaa Abd El-Fattah

Tabled: 9 May 2025
Answered: 14 May 2025
Named Day

Question

Sir Desmond Swayne

ConservativeNew Forest West

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of issuing sanctions on people associated with the detention of Alaa Abd El-Fattah in Egypt.

Answer

Mr Hamish Falconer
The Government is committed to securing Mr El-Fattah's release and we continue to raise his case at the highest levels of the Egyptian government. The Prime Minister raised the case in a letter to President Sisi on 4 May. The National Security Adviser als...

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