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.

Pick up the phone and bring Alaa home for Christmas. We’re counting on you.” In December 2021, Mr Abd El-Fattah was sentenced to five years in prison after being accused of spreading false ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has joined more than a dozen human rights organisations in calling on UK Foreign Minister ...

David Lammy said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has made representations over the case of Alaa Abd El-Fattah ... Mr Abd ...

One hundred days after jailed British-Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah should have been freed – and as his mother continues ...

pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who is in jail in the Egyptian capital of Cairo. He holds British citizenship – his 13-year-old son, Khaled, lives in Brighton – but consecutive ...

The extension of a prison sentence of a democracy activist in Egypt is prompting a hunger strike to draw attention to the ...

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 ... Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ...

Family and campaigners outside Downing Street drawing attention to Alaa Abdel Fattah's case in 2022 © Marie-Anne Ventoura/Amnesty International UK The mother of the ...

Laila Soueif, who consumes nothing more than hydration salts, water and tea with sweetener, has lost more than 20kg since 30 October, when she began fighting for her son, Alaa Abdel Fattah, to be ...

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 ... President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on ...