CAIRO (AP) — Prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah may be released through a pardon by the country’s president, state media reported.

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on Tuesday ordered relevant authorities to look into an appeal recently petitioned by the National Council for Human Rights-Egypt calling for the release of Abdel-Fattah along with six other convicted individuals, state-run newspaper Ahram reported.

The British-Egyptian dual national has been imprisoned in Egypt since September 2019. He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2021 for spreading false news.

“This is really promising, we hope these authorities follow through with urgency and that Alaa will be reunited with us soon,” his sister, Sanaa Souief, said Tuesday in a post on X.

The National Council for Huma

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