{"id":45985,"date":"2025-12-27T01:13:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=45985"},"modified":"2025-12-27T01:13:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:13:46","slug":"c1m8441ngjgoat_mediumrssat_campaignrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/12\/27\/c1m8441ngjgoat_mediumrssat_campaignrss\/","title":{"rendered":"British-Egyptian activist arrives in UK after travel ban lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The British-Egyptian writer and pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has arrived in the UK after a travel ban imposed by the Egyptian authorities was lifted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He was freed from jail in September after spending more than a decade of his life behind bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">His latest imprisonment came after being convicted of &#8220;spreading fake news&#8221; when he shared a Facebook post about torture in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">For Alaa Abdel Fattah and his family this is a new beginning after years of separation and suffering. His mother, Laila Soueif, almost died twice while on hunger strike to push for his release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The most prominent of Egypt&#8217;s many political prisoners, he was pardoned by President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in September but was then not allowed to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Now, removed from the travel ban list, he has flown to the UK to be reunited with his 14-year old son who lives in Brighton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer wrote on X that he was delighted, saying Alaa Abdel Fattah&#8217;s case had been a top priority for the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">His sister, Mona, said that hundreds of people around the world had helped bring this moment about and the family could now finally begin to heal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Speaking to the BBC from Cairo in October after his release, he had said: &#8220;I&#8217;m learning how to get back into life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;I&#8217;m doing much better than I would have expected. Much better than most people would have expected,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">His release in September followed a long campaign by his family &#8211; backed by celebrities such as actors Judi Dench and Olivia Colman &#8211; and lobbying by the British government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#BritishEgyptian #activist #arrives #travel #ban #lifted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British-Egyptian writer and pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has arrived in the UK after a travel ban imposed by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45987,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45985\/revisions\/45987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}