Foreign secretary urged to limit engagement with climate summit until Egypt frees UK citizen

Foreign secretary urged to limit engagement with climate summit until Egypt frees UK citizen

Politicians have written to the foreign secretary urging him to limit the UK's engagement with the upcoming COP27 climate summit in Egypt until its government frees a pro-democracy activist.

British-Egyptian Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been in prison for almost a decade and was sentenced to five years last December after being accused of spreading false news.

Egypt continues to deny consular access to him, and he has been on hunger strike for more than six months.