Laila Soueif, who has been on hunger strike for 117 days over the failure to secure Alaa Abd El-Fattah's release from an ...

A mother from Streatham has been on hunger strike for more than a hundred days to press for her son's release from an ...

Laila Soueif has critcised the Prime Minister for not having ‘deigned to reply’ to a letter she sent him about her son’s plight.

The family of a jailed British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist hope David Lammy can secure his release when he visits Egypt on Thursday. The Foreign Secretary is expected to press for Alaa Abd ...

An Australian journalist, who was once jailed for 400 days in Egypt, said he is staging a hunger strike in London to press ...

British-Egyptian dual national Alaa Abd El-Fattah has been detained since 2019 and his mother has spent more than 100 days on hunger strike.

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The mother of imprisoned British-Egyptian activist and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah has marked the 100th day of her hunger strike to demand the UK government “acts decisively” to secure his release.

A mother who has spent 100 days on hunger strike has said she believes the UK Government will only “act decisively” to help free her jailed son when she is admitted hospital. British-Egyptian ...

British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, 43, has been detained in Egypt since September 29 2019 and in December 2021 was sentenced to five years in prison after being accused of ...

Tuesday marks 100 days since 68-year-old Laila Soueif started a hunger strike in a plea to the UK government to free her son from imprisonment in Egypt, according to her family.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah was a leading activist in the country’s 2011 uprising. He has been imprisoned for much of the past decade, and in 2019 was sentenced to a further five years in prison for ...