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REVEALED: British citizen on hunger strike in egypt jail allowed exercise for first time in three years - The Real Truth

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A British citizen on more than 80 days of hunger strike in an Egyptian jail has been granted half an hour of exercise for the time in three years.

It comes after foreign secretary Liz Truss for the first time acknowledged the plight of Alaa Abdel-Fattah, 40, promising in parliament on Tuesday to raise his case with the Egyptian foreign minister during an upcoming visit.

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