The United Kingdom will not revoke the citizenship of an Egyptian activist who publicly approved of killing “Zionists,” U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said on Monday.

Mahmood was responding to calls to strip Abd el-Fattah of British citizenship, which he acquired in 2021, shortly after his arrest in Egypt for voicing criticism online of the policies of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

Separately, the Home Secretary last week barred an Islamist preacher, Shadee Elmasry, from New Jersey, from delivering a series of talks in the United Kingdom.