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Abd el-Fattah, Alaa, 1980-

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Personal name headingAbd el-Fattah, Alaa, 1980-
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Variant(s)El-Fattah, Alaa Abd, 1980-
ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ, ʻAlāʼ
عبد الفتاح، علاء، 1980-
Birth date1980-11-18
1981-11
Place of birthEgypt
Profession or occupationBloggers Computer software developers Political activists Political prisoners
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Found inYou have not yet been defeated, 2021 : title page (Alaa Abd el-Fattah)
Wikipedia, viewed November 29, 2021 (Alaa Ahmed Seif Abd-El Fattah (Arabic: علاء أحمد سيف عبد الفتاح‎; born 18 November 1981), known professionally as Alaa Abd El-Fattah (Arabic: علاء عبد الفتاح‎), is an Egyptian blogger, software developer and a political activist. He has been active in developing Arabic-language versions of important software and platforms. He was imprisoned in Egypt for allegedly organising a political protest without requesting authorization, though he was released on bail on 23 March 2014. He was rearrested and ordered released on bail again on 15 September 2014, subsequently sentenced to a month of jail in absentia, and received a five-year sentence in February 2015, which he was released from in late March 2019. El-Fattah remained subject to a five-year parole period, requiring him to stay at a police station for 12 hours daily, from evening until morning. On 29 September, during the 2019 Egyptian protests, El-Fattah was arrested by the National Security Agency and taken to State Security Prosecution on charges that were unknown as of 29 September 2019.)
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Shabaḥ al-Rabīʻ, 2022: title page (علاء عبد الفتاح = ʻAlāʼ ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ) title page verso (Alaa Abd El-Fattah [in rom.]) page 5 (born in November 1981)