At 40, Khalid Ali was the youngest candidate for the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections. An Egyptian lawyer and human rights activist, he gained fame by defending protesters in court. Among them were Alaa Abdel Fattah and Ahmad Abdul Rahman and 23 others, all of them January 25 activists arrested on charges of violating the anti-protest law in the Shura Council case.
In 1999, he co-founded and served as the executive director of the Hisham Mubarak Law Center, which provides free legal aid for human rights issues. He now heads the new Life and Freedom Party. The main goals of the party are protecting the January 25 Revolution’s achievements, rejecting violence and terrorism and avoiding civil oppression and religious radicalism. It also struggles for a civil democratic state and seeks to protect the people’s interests.
