CAIRO (Reuters) -Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered on Tuesday to study the pardon of an Egyptian-British activist and blogger, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a statement said.
The high profile Abd el-Fattah, 43, spent most of the past decade in prison, and had been on a hunger strike since March 1.
He moved to a partial hunger strike in late July after his name was taken off Egypt’s terrorism list, while his mother had ended hers earlier in the month.
Abd el-Fattah rose to prominence as an impassioned voice in the Arab Spring uprising that toppled Egypt’s veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
He frequently challenged the authorities’ tough crackdown on dissent following a military takeover led by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in 2013.
He was serving a five-year sentence that was imposed in December 2021 after he shared a social media post about a prisoner’s death.
(Reporting by Mohammed Hendawy, Editing Michael Georgy)
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