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Hope may be fading for release of Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah 

Alaa Abdel Fattah enters his sixth week of hunger strike.    

Shahira Amin
Shahira Amin
May 12, 2022
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Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah (C) smiles next to his mother Laila Soueif (R) and sister Mona Seif (L) in Giza, the twin city of Egypt's capital Cairo, on May 17, 2019. — KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images

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