Egypt's best-known activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah jailed again

A leading figure of Egypt's 2011 revolution, the blogger Alaa Abd El-Fattah was sentenced in December 2021 to five years for "spreading false news," one of a long series of detentions under successive governments. His months-long 2022 hunger strike — timed to the COP27 climate summit in Egypt — drew global attention to the country's tens of thousands of political prisoners and the limits of his British citizenship in securing release.

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Politicians

Alaa Abd El-Fattah activist

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APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Egypt's best-known activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah jailed again [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/f953723f-808a-4fdc-bd8d-b9ad50790c04

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Egypt's best-known activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah jailed again." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/f953723f-808a-4fdc-bd8d-b9ad50790c04.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-event-f953723f-808a-4fdc-bd8d-b9ad50790c04,
  title     = {{Egypt's best-known activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah jailed again}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/f953723f-808a-4fdc-bd8d-b9ad50790c04},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 2021-12-20. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 2021-12-20. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.