German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday that he highlighted the subject of imprisoned hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah during his visit to Egypt for the COP27 climate summit.
‘A choice must be made, and a release must be made possible, so that the hunger striker does not die,’ Scholz told reporters.
Abd el-Fattah, a popular activist and blogger, was sentenced to five years in prison in December 2021 for distributing fake news and has been on a hunger strike for 220 days in protest of his detention and prison conditions.
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