File Photo: Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah gives an interview at his home in Cairo. AFP
The decision follows approval by Prosecutor General Mohamed Shawqi in response to a formal request submitted by Abdel Fattah’s legal team to investigative authorities.
The travel ban lift comes nearly three months after President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi commuted the remainder of Abdel-Fattah’s prison sentence.
Abdel-Fattah, one of the most prominent figures of Egypt’s 2011 uprising, was arrested in September 2019 and spent two years in pretrial detention before being sentenced in 2021 to five years in prison for spreading false news.
In July 2025, a Cairo court removed Abdel-Fattah and six others from Egypt’s terrorism list, where he had been placed in 2020 by a criminal court ruling.
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