Moroccans are largest legally registered foreign workforce in Spain
Moroccans remain the largest legally registered foreign workforce in Spain, with 350,433 workers contributing to social security as of
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has urged Egypt's President Sisi, to release Alaa Abd El-Fattah a British citizen and activist currently jailed in Cairo. Fattah was a key figure in the 2011 revolt that overthrew then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Fattah was arrested by Egyptian authorities in September 2019 and later given a five-year sentence for "spreading false news". His mother, Laila Soueif, has been on hunger strike for 152 days in protest of the detention; PM Starmer had met with Souief in recent weeks to discuss her son’s case.
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