High-profile Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah was released on Tuesday, his family said, a day after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned him and five other prisoners.

Egypt has pardoned its most prominent political prisoner, a British dual national pro-democracy campaigner who had spent nearly a decade behind bars.

Alaa Abdel Fattah, who was imprisoned in Egypt for six years, is reunited with his family in Cairo after being pardoned.

The British-Egyptian activist is one of six people whose sentences have been commuted, according to state media.

High-profile Egyptian British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah was released on Tuesday, his family said, a day after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned him and five other prisoners.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah is considered to be among the most high-profile political prisoners held in Egypt’s prisons.

After almost a decade in jail, British-Egyptian journalist and writer Alaa Abdel Fattah has finally been released from prison in Egypt. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) celebrates his freedom, and ...

Abdel Fattah was a symbol of the 2011 uprising but was arrested two years later. He has since spent almost all of the past 12 years behind bars.

Alaa Abd El Fattah became a prominent campaigner during protests in Cairo in 2011 that led to the ousting of former president Hosni Mubarak. In 2014, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison - later ...

Freed after nearly 12 years in jail, following international and domestic pressure—and his mother’s nine-month hunger strike—Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s case highlights Egypt’s enduring human rights crisis.

Pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah who was in prison for almost all of the past 12 years, hugs his mother Laila Soueif, as he arrives at his home, after a presidential pardon, in Cairo, Egypt, ...