Both the Conservatives and Reform UK have called for his British citizenship to be revoked due to Mr Abd El-Fattah’s previous social media posts
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Both the Conservatives and Reform UK have called for his British citizenship to be revoked due to Mr Abd El-Fattah’s previous social media posts
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MPs reject call to strip British-Egyptian activist of UK nationality over social media posts from a decade ago
Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who recently arrived in the UK after years of imprisonment in Egypt, does maintain that other posts have been…
Shabana Mahmood is facing growing calls to revoke the citizenship of British-Egyptian dual national Alaa Abdel Fattah after the…
Government sources say social media posts by British-Egyptian activist do not meet legal bar for such sanction
I have no interest in defending his social media posts, but calls to strip the newly freed activist of British citizenship pile…
The 44-year-old has long been considered Egypt's most high-profile political prisoner, having spent much of his adult life…
Alaa Abd el-Fattah ‘will not be stripped of British citizenship’ over past tweets
