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An Egyptian MP was removed from a COP27 press conference after defending British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah’s continued detention. Amr Darwish told the activist’s sister Sanaa Seif, who was on a panel at the event, that Abdel Fattah is “not a political prisoner”, according to videos of the event posted by activists online. He was escorted out by UN security. Abdel Fattah was detained in Egypt in 2019 after a critical tweet and sentenced to five years in prison for spreading “fake news”. NGOs estimate that Egypt has detained 60,000 political prisoners since 2013, including Abdel Fattah…