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What is the proper punishment for hateful social media posts? Should you lose your account? Your job? Your citizenship? Go to jail? Die? For the people…

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…

The Home Office will not strip the British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his citizenship because his “abhorrent” past social media posts do not meet the…

Downing Street has defended its campaign for the release of a British-Egyptian activist and decision to welcome him to the UK despite his “abhorrent” tweets a…

Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the British-Egyptian human rights campaigner, has apologised unreservedly for what he accepted were shocking and hurtful tweets that he wrote more than 10…