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Britain Should Have Read the Tweets First
The Atlantic ^ | December 30, 2025 | Helen Lewis

Posted on 12/30/2025 10:40:25 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

How much effort should a country expend to rescue someone who appears to hate its values? That is the question posed by the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah.

Abd el-Fattah is an Egyptian pro-democracy campaigner who has been in and out of prison since 2006 for opposing the regimes of Hosni Mubarak and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and for drawing attention to torture and other abuses. In 2021, he was granted British citizenship through a somewhat tenuous connection—his mother, Laila, had been born in London while her mother was studying in the United Kingdom—which gave the British government greater standing to lobby Cairo on his behalf.

It pressed his case under three Conservative prime ministers (Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak) and, since June 2024, under Labour’s Keir Starmer. Six months ago, a government minister said that the case had been “a top priority every week that I have been in office.

Last week, those efforts finally paid off. Egypt lifted a travel ban on Abd el-Fattah, who had been released from jail in September, and Starmer declared that he was “delighted” that Abd el-Fattah was “back in the UK and has been reunited with his loved ones.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


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1 posted on 12/30/2025 10:40:25 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s pretty bad when you’ve lost The Atlantic.


2 posted on 12/30/2025 10:44:01 AM PST by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: MinorityRepublican
In 2021, he was granted British citizenship through a somewhat tenuous connection—his mother, Laila, had been born in London while her mother was studying in the United Kingdom—which gave the British government greater standing to lobby Cairo on his behalf.

WHY would the UK twist itself in a pretzel to give UK diplomatic protection to this person?

Because he was either an MI6 agent, or useful to the schemes of the globalists in the rump British empire in London.

3 posted on 12/30/2025 10:46:06 AM PST by PGR88
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To: aynrandfreak

I’m sure it’s only temporary


4 posted on 12/30/2025 10:53:19 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

One just need to study Islam and their history.


5 posted on 12/30/2025 10:57:50 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: MinorityRepublican

What a timely thread...

Speaking of the UK and tweets, screenshots at the link...

TR G - The Royal Grift
@TheRoyalGrift

This British National, James Holt, had an unusual interest in our US election process. He was very upset the day after WE THE PEOPLE elected Donald Trump as our President in 2016.

It’s abundantly clear, James Holt was on a mission here in 2020, along with Prince Harry, in undermining our Constitutional republic.

Foreign influence from the UK played a part in robbing the American people of a free and fair election, as well as violated many American’s first amendment rights in the Censorship Complex.

Do not let this go...

1:32 PM · Dec 30, 2025 791 Views

https://x.com/TheRoyalGrift/status/2006070817495326750

One more, check out Holt’s past employers, screenshot at the link...

https://x.com/GGMiller6477/status/2006078252356710761

Was Holt an unregistered foreign agent in violation of the FARA...?


6 posted on 12/30/2025 11:16:14 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: MinorityRepublican

This guy supports the values of the UK government.


7 posted on 12/30/2025 11:25:23 AM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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