{"id":259166,"date":"2025-12-31T03:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/259166\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T03:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:23:11","slug":"dup-defends-sammy-wilson-support-for-activist-alaa-abd-el-fattah-but-calls-for-full-review-of-case-after-controversial-tweets-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/259166\/","title":{"rendered":"DUP defends Sammy Wilson support for activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah but calls for \u2018full review\u2019 of case after controversial tweets revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The activist, recently released after years of detention in Egypt, wrote tweets which appeared to show him calling for violence against Zionists\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sammy Wilson, DUP MP for East Antrim\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/99ef482e-8838-4607-9ff1-25c4b8e199f5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sammy Wilson, DUP MP for East Antrim<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The DUP has defended Sammy Wilson\u2019s previous support of Alaa Abd El-Fattah but has called for a \u201creview of the case\u201d following \u201cabhorrent comments\u201d the Egyptian activist made on social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It comes after the UUP called on East Antrim MP Mr Wilson to explain why he was among peers and MPs who had signed a letter calling for Mr Abd El-Fattah\u2019s release after years of detention in Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The activist, recently released after years of detention in Egypt, wrote tweets which appeared to show him calling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,31778,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,133816,7,8,39896,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-259166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-democratic-unionist-party","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-sammy-wilson","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-ulster-unionist-party","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115812040918739861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}