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SMEX • 27 May 2022

To UK Officials: A Letter in Support of Alaa’s Freedom

  • Alaa
  • Alaa Abd El-Fattah
  • Alaa Abdel Fattah
SMEX • 21 Apr 2022

Egypt’s jailed activist Alaa Abdelfatah brings up second nationality for the first time as patience runs dry

He has British citizenship through his mother, Laila Soueif, a mathematics professor at Cairo University who was born in London while her…

  • Activists
  • Alaa Abdel Fattah
  • Egypt
SMEX • 05 Oct 2021

#FreeAlaa: Freedom for our courageous friend and human rights defender, Alaa Abdel Fattah

Our courageous friend and colleague, Egyptian activist and technologist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, must be released from his arbitrary detention immediately….

  • Alaa Abdel Fattah
  • Egypt
  • FreeAlaa
smexadmin • 01 Nov 2015

Free Alaa Campaign Takes Social Media by Storm on the First Anniversary of His Imprisonment

It’s been a year since the imprisonment of Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah, an icon of the Egyptian revolution, for…

  • Alaa Abdel Fattah
  • Egypt
  • FreeAlaa