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Drawing of Laila Souief, mother of Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | June 2, 2025

245 Days Without Justice: Laila Soueif’s Hunger Strike and the Fight to Free Alaa Abd el-Fattah

Laila Soueif has now been on hunger strike for 245 days. On Thursday night, she was taken to the hospital once again. Soueif’s hunger strike is a powerful act of protest against the failures of two governments. The Egyptian government continues to deny basic justice by keeping her son,...

Alaa Abd El Fattah
Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York, Paige Collings | March 10, 2025

RightsCon Community Calls for Urgent Release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah

Last month saw digital rights organizations and social justice groups head to Taiwan for this year's RightsCon conference on human rights in the digital age. During the conference, one prominent message was spoken loud and clear: Alaa Abd El-Fattah must be immediately released from illegal detention in Egypt.
Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | February 14, 2025

Alaa Abd El Fattah's Mother, Laila Soueif, Calls on UK Government to Help as She Continues Hunger Strike

Update 2/25/2025: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer finally met with Laila Soueif in February after months of requests for a sit-down to discuss getting his assistance to release Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Starmer pledged to do "all that I can" to secure the release of Alaa, saying in a statement: "We...

Portrait of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El Fattah
Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo, Jillian C. York | September 11, 2024

Britain Must Call for Release of British-Egyptian Activist and Coder Alaa Abd El Fattah

As British-Egyptian coder, blogger, and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah enters his fifth year in a maximum security prison outside Cairo, unjustly charged for supporting online free speech and privacy for Egyptians and people across the Middle East and North Africa, we stand with his family and an ever-growing international...
A drawn image of Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El Fattah
Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | October 19, 2022

Alaa Abd El Fattah Surpasses 200 Days of Hunger Strike as COP27 Summit Nears

We remain gravely concerned about the deteriorating health of Alaa Abd El Fattah, the British-Egyptian activist, technologist, 2022 EFF Award winner, and Amnesty Prisoner of Conscience. Alaa has now been on hunger strike at Wadi el Natrun Prison in Egypt for more than 200 days, and was ...

shackled hands on keyboard, with Egypt flag
Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | December 2, 2020

Action for Egyptian Human Rights Defenders

The undersigned organisations strongly condemn the persecution of employees of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) and Egyptian civil society by the Egyptian government. We urge the global community and their respective governments to do the same and join us in calling for the release of detained human...

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Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | December 19, 2019

More Than Thirty Human Rights Groups Protest the Targeting of Digital Rights Defenders in Ecuador, Argentina, and Beyond

Protecting human rights comes in many forms. Some human rights defenders are lawyers, defending clients against violations of their basic humanity. Some are journalists, exposing corruption and the secret injustices that might otherwise hide behind power. Some are activists, working in politics and in their communities to give support to...

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