PoliticsUK urged to help free British-Egyptian woman arrested in Cairo over sister’s activism

Lawyers say Eman el-Shazly, a British-Egyptian woman from Birmingham, was arrested in Cairo on 16 August to pressure her sister Mona, a fierce critic of Egypt’s Sisi government. The UK Foreign Office has been asked to intervene, but its Cairo representatives have not yet secured access to her.

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