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CAIRO: Egyptian authorities on Monday announced the presidential pardon of prominent activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, according to his lawyer Khaled Ali and an announcement by Egypt’s state TV. Abd el-Fattah, who has been in prison for six years, is a top activist and was a leading voice in the country’s 2011 Arab Spring uprising who went on hunger strikes behind bars and whose ordeal became emblematic of Egypt’s democratic backsliding.

Abd el-Fattah is one of the six people whose sentences President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi commuted following a request from the National Council for Human Rights, according to the state media. It was not immediately clear when they will walk free. Abd el-Fattah's lawyer confirmed the news and wrote on X

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