A leading voice in the Arab Spring protests, the political dissident spent more than half of his adult life behind bars.

Fattah, one of Egypt’s most prominent human rights defenders, has been freed after spending more than a decade behind bars

Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah was released from prison Tuesday, ending a six-year detention on charges broadly decried as politically motivated. Family members shared news of Alaa

Egyptian activist, who spent most of the last 12 years behind bars, and his mother went on hunger strike to protest his imprisonment

High-profile Egyptian British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah was released on Tuesday, his family said, a day after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned him and five other prisoners.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah is considered to be among the most high-profile political prisoners held in Egypt’s prisons.