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UK Foreign Office Asked to Secure Eman el-Shazly Release

8/27/2026

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The UK Foreign Office has been asked to intervene to secure Eman el-Shazly’s release in Egypt.
Eman el-Shazly was arrested on 16 August in Cairo, allegedly to silence her sister Mona.
Mona el-Shazly runs a UK YouTube channel with 130,000 subscribers that criticises Egypt’s government.
Her brothers Hassan and Eid spent three years in jail and were rearrested in May on terrorism-related social-media charges.

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The UK Foreign Office has been asked to intervene to secure Eman el-Shazly’s release in Egypt.
Eman el-Shazly was arrested on 16 August in Cairo, allegedly to silence her sister Mona.
Mona el-Shazly runs a UK YouTube channel with 130,000 subscribers that criticises Egypt’s government.
Her brothers Hassan and Eid spent three years in jail and were rearrested in May on terrorism-related social-media charges.