British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has hit back at UK politicians calling for his citizenship to be removed after they cited a number of 15-year-old social media posts in which he appeared to call for violence against Zionists, the police and British forces in Iraq.
The 44-year-old is one of the most well-known figures of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising and was jailed after Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's seizure of power in a 2013 military coup.
After being pardoned and released earlier this year, he flew to join his family in the UK last week.
However, after Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed the activist's arrival, a number of opposition politicians began highlighting social media posts made by Abd el-Fattah in 2010 that they claimed were antisemitic and advocating violence.
Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, wrote on X on Sunday that he had reported the activist to the Metropolitan Police's counterterrorism unit while Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch wrote in the Daily Mail that he should be stripped of his citizenship.
