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Int’l press covers Alaa Abdel Fattah’s continued imprisonment

Imprisoned activist Alaa Abdel Fattah is back in the international press after his mother said she had begun a hunger strike in protest of his continued detention, which the family maintains should have ended on 29 September. The news received attention from the Associated Press while the Washington Post is out with an opinion piece on Abdel Fattah’s detention.