Mona Seif, the sister of British-Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abdel Fattah, whose life is in danger after a seven-month hunger strike, announced Friday that she has formally asked the president for a pardon for his release.

“I already submitted a request in June, and today I submitted a new (request) to confirm my commitment in favor of any legal way to resolve the fate of my brother,” he tweeted, and since April, Egypt has reactivated the grace of the Presidential Commission. who has been dormant for years and, according to Amnesty International, has already released 766 political prisoners.

However, the NGO adds that in those seven months, another 1,540 Egyptians were imprisoned for crimes of conviction.

^{Source: APE-MEB, AFP.}