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November 2, 2022

Nobel Laureates Draw Attention to Egypt's Jailing of Activists Ahead of COP27
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Fifteen Nobel laureates have signed on to a letter to world leaders
ahead of this month's U.N. climate summit, asking them to "devote part
of your agenda to the many thousands of political prisoners held in
Egypt's prisons - most urgently, the Egyptian-British writer and
philosopher, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, now six months into a hunger strike and
at risk of death." The majority of the Nobel literature laureates since
1986 signed the letter.


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