Egypt's human rights violations steal the spotlight at COP27 | DW News

International pressure has been mounting for the "immediate release" of Alaa Abdel Fattah. The Egyptian human rights activist has been on hunger strike for months and has also been refusing water since COP27 opened in Sharm el Sheikh.
For the past six months, Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who is also a UK citizen, has been on a hunger strike.
With the beginning of the World Climate Conference COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday he stepped up his hunger strike and has now stopped drinking water as well.
The 40-year-old blogger, who was awarded a prize by DW and Reporters Without Borders for his blog in 2005, was a key figure during the 2011 Arab Spring in Egypt.
In 2013, he was arrested and convicted following a protest against a stricter demonstration law.
After being initially released in 2019, authorities arrested him again and he was sentenced to five years in prison in 2021. The judiciary accuses him of spreading "false information," a popular charge leveled against dissidents in Egypt.

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