58 civil society organizations, including the World Movement for Democracy, demand that the Egyptian government comply with its legal obligations and immediately release Egyptian-British writer and activist  Alaa Abd el-Fattah. On September 29, family, friends, and human rights organizations worldwide awaited the release Alaa Abd el-Fattah as he completed his 5-year I prison sentence. However Egyptian authorities denied his freedom. This violates Article 482 of the Egyptian Code of Criminal Procedure. Abd el-Fattah has been imprisoned almost continuously since 2014. His latest detention began in 2019, when he was ordered pre-trial detention under bogus terrorism-related charges. In December 2021, in a trial that UN experts judged unfair, a court sentenced him to five years in prison for “spreading false news,” simply for sharing a Facebook post about torture. According to Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s lawyer, Egyptian authorities do not plan to release Alaa until January 2027.

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