The activist, recently released from years of Egyptian detention, had appeared to call for violence against Zionists and police in online comments

Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who recently arrived in the UK after years of imprisonment in Egypt, does maintain that other posts have been ‘completely twisted out of their meaning’

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says she and Sir Keir Starmer were unaware of Alaa Abd El Fattah's "abhorrent" historical tweets.

The activist, recently released from years of Egyptian detention, had appeared to call for violence against Zionists and police in online comments