Exclusive: Writing for Guardian Australia, Adler says she ‘cannot be party to silencing writers’ after Adelaide festival board cancelled Randa Abdel-Fattah’s invitation to appear
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Three board members resign from Adelaide festival as Randa Abdel-Fattah sends legal notice ⊖
Resignations follow withdrawal of more than 70 participants in writers’ week after Palestinian Australian author disinvited
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58 days ago
Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s tweets were wrong, but he is no ‘anti-white Islamist’. Why does the British right want you to believe he is? | Naomi Klein ⊖⊖
I have no interest in defending his social media posts, but calls to strip the newly freed activist of British citizenship pile torment on top of torture
What is the proper punishment for hateful soci…
59 days ago
Sister of 'extremist' Egyptian dissident who Keir Starmer welcomed to Britain praised 'imagination' of Hamas militants after 7 October attacks ⊖
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Mona Seif, who headed a long-running campaign for her brother Alaa Abd El-Fattah's release, suggested the 2023 violence against Israelwas 'understandable'.
UK to probe British-Egyptian activist case ‘failures’ after social media posts cause furor ⊖
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PM Keir Starmer was "unaware" of historic social media posts by Alaa Abd El-Fattah — in which he said killing Zionists was "heroic" — when he welcomed him to the U.K. last week.
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Chef, 59, admits groping women as they exercised on Brighton beach after offering them 'touching therapy' ⊕
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Fattah Derrahi, 59, of Hove, East Sussex, told the women they had 'good energy' after watching them exercise on Brighton seafront before groping them, between 2021 and 2025.
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Sudan army chief rejects truce proposal citing UAE role ⊖
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan says UAE cannot be involved as it backs the RSF, signalling that fighting is to continue for now.
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250 days on hunger strike: Can Laila Soueif secure her son’s freedom? – podcast ○
Who is Alaa Abd el-Fattah and why are British diplomats trying to obtain his release? Patrick Wintour reports
Laila Soueif, 69, has been on hunger strike in London for more than 250 days in an effort …
Egypt’s president ignores Starmer’s pleas over mother of jailed activist ○
Laila Soueif is critically ill after nearly 250 days on hunger strike in protest at her son’s imprisonment in Egypt
The Egyptian president is refusing to take a call from Keir Starmer, knowing it will…
Laila Soueif, on 247th day of hunger strike for jailed British-Egyptian son, defiant in face of death ○
Soueif is willing to do ‘what it takes’ to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, after a lifetime of speaking up against injustice
Laila Soueif, lying shrunken on a hospital bed at St Thomas’ hospital in London on…