Nigel Farage has reported activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah to counter-terrorism police over historical social media posts.
Mr Abd El-Fattah is now facing calls to be stripped of his UK citizenship and deported after posts from 2010 resurfaced in which he is alleged to have called for violence against Zionists and the police.
The British-Egyptian dual national was detained in Egypt in September 2019, and in December 2021 was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of spreading false news.
His imprisonment was branded a breach of international law by UN investigators and he was released earlier this year after being pardoned by Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi.
Labour ministers, including the Prime Minister, are under fire after sending warm welcome messages to Mr Abd El-Fattah as past comments emerged on social media.
Mr Farage’s Reform UK has attacked the “uni party”, referring to both Labour and the Conservatives, for their joint efforts in ensuring his release.
The party’s head of policy, Zia Yusuf, posted on X: “Last year, 107 MPs and Peers wrote to David Lammy (the then-Foreign Secretary) urging him to secure the return of Alaa el-Fattah… a man who had publicly espoused his hatred of British people, white people and Jews.
“They included: six Tories, five Greens, 35 Labour, 34 Lib Dems… and ZERO Reform of course.
Keir Starmer is under fire for welcoming the activist’s return to Britain
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“The Alaa el-Fattah saga sums up the uniparty: prioritising those who hate Britain.
“Voting for the Tories again will only result in more of the same. Britain needs Reform.”
Mr Farage has now made Mr Alaa el-Fattah’s saga a police matter by raising his concerns with Britain’s early intervention programme, Prevent.
The case will now be assessed to decide whether there is any immediate risk or criminal concern.
Most of the social media posts happened between 2010 and 2012, in which the British-Egyptian national allegedly described Britons as “dogs and monkeys” and proclaimed that it was heroic to kill Zionists, “including civilians”.
Among the posts was a call to action for Londoners, in which he urged them to burn Downing Street and kill police officers.
Downing Street has since issued a statement condemning Mr Abd El-Fattah’s comments.
“Mr El-Fattah is a British citizen,” a Foreign Office spokesman said.
Nigel Farage wants el-Fattah’s deportation
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“It has been a long-standing priority under successive governments to work for his release from detention, and to see him reunited with his family in the UK.
“The Government condemns Mr El-Fattah’s historic tweets and considers them to be abhorrent.”
The Prime Minister previously said: “I’m delighted that Alaa Abd El-Fattah is back in the UK and has been reunited with his loved ones, who must be feeling profound relief… Alaa’s case has been a top priority for my government since we came to office.”
Sources suggest neither top officials from Labour or the Tories were aware of the individual’s online activity when they called for his release and welcomed him to the UK.
Earlier this year, Mr Abd El-Fattah was pardoned by Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s government after spending most of the past 12 years in jail on charges of spreading “fake news”.
He became a prominent pro-democracy campaigner and blogger during the Egyptian Uprising of 2011 leading to the ousting of former president Hosni Mubarak.
Mr Abd El-Fattah has British citizenship through his mother Laila Soueif, a London-born mathematics professor, who previously went on hunger strike over his case and met Sir Keir to lobby for her son’s freedom.
Mr Abd El-Fattah’s representatives has been approached for comment, but have yet to respond.
