Anti-Austerity Alliance calls for governent to secure release of Ibrahim Halawa

The Government has not done enough to free Irish teenager Ibrahim Halawa from Egyptian imprisonment and must make attempts to secure his release “immediately”, according to members of the Anti-Austerity Alliance.

Ibrahim, a 19-year-old student from Firhouse, Co Dublin, was jailed two years and three months ago after he took part in a protest in Cairo.

He was one of hundreds of people arrested during the demonstrations, during which it is estimated Egyptian police killed around 800 protestors.