‘The idea was to crush his spirit’

"He’s an activist who has audience and influence – a thinker with his own philosophy and interest in how political movements develop, how people move, how they understand things."

This is a nice new article in the Guardian that interviews various people in Egypt about Alaa and what he represents - to both them and the regime intent on punishing him. 

Read it in full here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/12/the-idea-was-to-crush-his-spirit-family-of-jailed-british-egyptian-man-describe-awful-prison-conditions