CAIRO – 8 November 2022: Egyptian MP Amr Darwish was demanded out from a press conference for Sanaa Abdel Fattah in Sharm El sheikh, Tuesday after commenting on her speech regarding her brother’s Alaa Abdel Fattah situation.
In statements to ET, Amr said that “after commenting on Sanaa’s allegations, she didn’t reply, and one of the conference’s organizers came asking me out, and that she is not going to reply because the conference has ended, which was not true.”
“Sanaa demands freedom of opinion, but she prevents it from others,” MP Darwish said.
Darwish who is a member of the Coordination's Committee of Party's Youth Leaders and Politicians [CPYP] added that “Sanaa was trying to turn her brother's case through her statements from a criminal prisoner to a political prisoner” and when I started to comment on her statements like another participant at the conference she denied answering, and said that she is not going to reply to ‘Egyptian authorities’.
“I was not representing any kind of authorities inside the conference”, Darwish said, explaining that “addressing the Egyptian authorities has its own channels”.
Darwish noted that, “Sharm El sheikh is currently hosting a conference to save the planet [referring to COP27], what dose has to do with her brother’s situation?!”
During an interview with CNBC on the sidelines of COP27 in Sharm El sheikh on Sunday, Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry was asked if he anticipates any kind of conversations regarding Alaa Abdel Fattah during the visit of UK’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to participate at COP27.
“I think we should all now concentrate on the task at hand, our priority of climate change”, Minister Shoukry said.
Regarding his health condition and the hunger strike he announced on the 6th of November, Shoukry said that he is “confident that the prison authorities will provide the needed health care that is available to all inmates”
He added that previous hunger Strike reports were raised previously and “have not been verifiable”, However, FM Shoukry affirmed that “the government is open for all kind of conversations and have nothing to hide.”
Earlier in July, Egypt’s Public Prosecution said, that the investigations it conducted regarding the imprisoned activist Alaa Abdel Fattah confirmed that he was not subjected to any kind of physical torture, and that his body doesn’t has any marks of any kind that indicates otherwise.
In a statement the prosecution issued to clarify the results of its investigations into the complaints submitted by Alaa’s lawyer and a number of his relatives, which included being tortured during his stay at the Tora Correction and Rehabilitation Center, as well as preventing his family from visiting him, the statement said that one of the chief prosecutors in the Human Rights Department of the Public Prosecutor’s Office visited Alaa and reviewed his file.
It was stated that the imprisoned activist received eight visits from his mother, two sisters and some of his relatives, and that they brought him food on some of those visits.
On December 20, 2021, an emergency court of the Egyptian State Supreme Security sentenced Alaa Abd El Fattah to five years in prison for charges of “publishing false news and disinformation, with the intent of disturbing public peace and stability.”
Alaa Abd El Fattah was arrested in September 2019 during rare demonstrations that were called by fugitive contractor Mohamed Ali.
Egypt officially took over the presidency of the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on Sunday, which will be held until November 18, and is witnessing a wide international participation in the presence of more than 40,000 people representing around 197 countries.
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