An Egyptian MP was removed from a COP27 press conference after defending British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah's continued detention. Amr Darwish told the activist's sister Sanaa Seif, who was on a panel at the event, that Abdel Fattah is "not a political prisoner", according to videos of the event posted by activists online. He was escorted out by UN security. Abdel Fattah was detained in Egypt in 2019 after a critical tweet and sentenced to five years in prison for spreading "fake news". NGOs estimate that Egypt has detained 60,000 political prisoners since 2013, including Abdel Fattah who has been on a hunger strike for over 200 days in protest of his "unjust
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