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Starmer presses Egyptian president for release of jailed British man

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Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s mother Laila Soueif’s hunger strike has left her in a critical condition in hospital.

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Starmer presses Egyptian president for release of jailed British man

Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s mother Laila Soueif’s hunger strike has left her in a critical condition in hospital.

3 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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Al-Monitor

UK PM presses Egypt's Sisi to release jailed activist

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday spoke to Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, urging him to release a British citizen and activist jailed in Cairo, Downing Street said."The prime minister discussed the case of British national Alaa Abd El-Fattah with President Sisi. He pressed for Alaa's release, having met his mother Laila Soueif in recent weeks," Downing Street said in a readout of the pair's telephone call.

3 days ago·Washington, United States

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Amnesty International

UK/Egypt: Mother's hunger strike for imprisoned activist son Alaa Abd El-Fattah 'could be a matter of life and death'

Laila Soueif, the mother of jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, has been hospitalised just hours before the 150th day of her hunger strike in protest of her son’s imprisonment in Egypt.Soueif, 68, has lost nearly 30kg since starting her strike in September. She was admitted to St. Thomas’ hospital yesterday evening after her blood sugar and blood pressure dropped to dangerously low levels, her daughter said in posts on Instagram…

4 days ago

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The New Arab

Rights experts demand Egypt urgently release Alaa Abdel-Fattah

A group of UN-affiliated human rights experts on Thursday called on Egypt to immediately release jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, as fears grow for the life of his mother, who is on hunger strike in protest at his incarceration. Abdel Fattah, a major opposition figure during the 2011 revolution and vocal critic of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has spent most of the past 14 years in police detention or prison on terror charge…

5 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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