President Biden’s stopover in Egypt included “intensive consultations” on the case of British-Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abdel Fattah, the White House said.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Biden’s brief stopover at the U.N. climate conference known as COP27 on Friday included “intensive consultations” on the case of Alaa Abdel Fattah, the British-Egyptian political prisoner on hunger and water strike in an Egyptian prison.“We are doing everything we can to secure his release as well as the release of a number of other political prisoners,” U.S.
The family fears authorities could be force-feeding him or that he may have already died. Egyptian officials have insisted he is in good care.Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One after departing from Egypt, Sullivan said he did “not have an update on [Abdel Fattah’s] condition.” Abdel Fattah claimed British citizenship through his mother last year, but Egyptian authorities have refused to allow British consular access to him in prison.
“There is a question about the extent to which trying to resolve these cases diplomatically is best done through public pressure or private engagement,” Sullivan said. “That’s a constant debate, a constant calibration.” “I can say emphatically that we believe that Alaa Abdel Fattah should be released,” he said. “But in terms of talking through the specifics of our discussions with the Egyptians,” he added, “I’d like to leave those behind closed doors for the moment.”
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