Should Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s tweets have legal consequences?
Comparing and contrasting the cases of Lucy Connolly and Abd El-Fattah
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David Allen Green
David Allen Green, a former legal correspondent of the New Statesman, blogs at the Empty City substack
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