Abdel Fattah was one of six people whose sentences were commuted following a request from the National Council for Human Rights, according to Al-Qahera News. Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned the prominent British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has been imprisoned for six years, state media and his family say. Abdel Fattah's other sister Sanaa Seif later wrote on X: "President Sisi has pardoned my brother!" Abdel Fattah has also staged a number of hunger strikes himself. In 2015, a court sentenced Abdel Fattah to five years in prison for participating in an unauthorised protest.