London, Nov 27, 2024 (AFP) - Mother of jailed UK-Egyptian vows to maintain hunger strike

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2024-11-27

The mother of a British-Egyptian activist blogger imprisoned in Egypt told UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Wednesday she will keep up a two-month-old hunger strike until he is released. Laila Soueif, 68, who has not eaten for 59 days, met Britain's new top diplomat for the first time to press her case for the UK government to do more to secure the release of her son, Alaa Abdel Fattah. The pro-democracy and rights campaigner was arrested by E......

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