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

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- The Guardian, 2026-08-27 08:00 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/uk-urged-to-help-free-british-egyptian-arrested-in-cairo-over-sisters-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.