PEN Austrias Writers-In-Prison Committee voices its deep concern for Alaa Abd el Fattah, Honorary Member of PEN Austria
PEN Austria’s Writers-In-Prison Committee voices its deep concern for Alaa Abd el Fattah, Honorary Member of PEN Austria. The Egyptian blogger is imprisoned since 2013 serving a five years sentence for participating in a so called “unauthorized demonstration”. Alaa Abd El Fattah was one of the very first bloggers in Arabic and the first to aggregate blogs coming out of Egypt. He has always worked for freedom of expression whether in his writing or