"Smiling and joking in a Steve Biko T-shirt, he said he felt surprisingly well but needed time to find himself after so long either in solitary confinement or isolated in jail. About the British government's efforts to secure his release, he said simply: We did manage to get me out but we did not manage to get a consular visit. That still does not make sense to me. But that might be on the previous government. This one might have inherited the situation."
"Alaa Abd el-Fattah said he feared his mother might have died on hunger strike during the 12 years he spent in what he described as a vortex of incarceration. British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison In an interview from Cairo, Abd el-Fattah also said he needed a pause in his human rights campaigning to give himself time to heal, adding he no longer believed prison was a necessary rite of passage on the route to freedom."
Alaa Abd el-Fattah was released after more than a decade of continuous detention in Cairo and wants to join his autistic 14-year-old son in the UK. He feared his mother might have died on hunger strike during the 12 years he described as a vortex of incarceration. He said he needed a pause in human rights campaigning to heal. He felt surprisingly well but needed time to find himself after long periods in solitary confinement or isolation in jail. He noted the UK secured his release but did not obtain a consular visit. He rose to prominence during the 2011 Arab spring, was jailed in 2014, detained again from 2019 and convicted in December 2021.
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