Egypt's president has pardoned prominent British-Egyptian national Alaa Abdel-Fattah , who has been imprisoned for the better part of the past decade after his involvement in the 2011 uprising.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi issued the pardon to the 43-year-old activist who has become one of the country's most prominent political prisoners. Five others were also pardoned.

"The Egyptian president issues a pardon for the remainder of the prison sentence for a number of convicted persons, after taking the constitutional and legal procedures in this regard," Al-Qahera News, which is linked to Egypt's state intelligence services, reported.

The United Nations had repeatedly called for his immediate release and called his detention arbitrary. The British government had also raised

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