Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Egyptian Government on the release of British national Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
The UK Government makes regular representations about Mr Alaa Abd El Fattah's imprisonment, welfare and lack of consular access, and will continue to do so until his case is resolved. The Foreign Secretary has raised the case with Egyptian Foreign Minister Shoukry on several occasions. The Prime Minister raised consular access with President Sisi on 7 November and the Minister for the Middle East and North Africa has also raised Mr El-Fattah's case on a number of occasions, most recently on 5 December with the Egyptian Ambassador. The British Embassy Cairo also raise his case regularly with the Egyptian authorities.