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Mother on hunger strike for jailed son


Mother on hunger strike for jailed son


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Laila Soueif has not eaten for more than three weeks and is past the stage of senseing hungry.

In London to campaign for the free of her British-Egyptian son, Alaa Abdel Fattah, the 68-year-elderly maths professor insists – stoicassociate – that she’s “not senseing terrible at all”.

She went on hunger strike the day after what should have been the end of his five-year prison sentence – though his relatives, aextfinished with human rights groups, say that he should never have been in prison at all.

Alaa Abdel Fattah is Egypt’s best-understandn political prisoner. A blogger, writer and outspoken pro-democracy activist, he has been in jail for most of the past decade.

His mother’s hunger strike – she’s surviving on water, rehydration salts and sugarless tea or coffee – is a sign of his family’s increasing desperation.

“I’m grasping it up until Alaa is free or I’m consentn to hospital in a terrible state,” she tells me. “His life has been on helderly for 11 years. It can’t go on.”

Alaa Abdel Fattah was arrested in September 2019, six months after finishing a previous five-year sentence.

He was convicted in 2021 of spreading inrectify news, for sharing a Facebook post about torture in Egypt. The Egyptian authorities are refusing to count the more than two years he spent in pre-trial detention towards his time served.

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Alaa Abdel Fattah (pictured in 2019) has spent years behind bars

Although he obtaind British citizenship in 2021, Egypt has never apvalidateed him a consular visit.

In opposition two years ago, the UK’s then shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, called for “solemn tactful consequences” if access wasn’t granted promptly and Alaa Abdel Fattah was not freed.

But his family are proestablishly disnominateed with how the current rulement, and the previous one, have handled his case. They think the UK has more leverage with Egypt – a key associate – than it’s setd to employ.

“I’m not a fool. I don’t foresee the rulement to ruin billions of dollars’ worth of trade deals for my son,” says Laila Souief, who lives in Cairo but was born in London.

She does, however, foresee Mr Lammy, now that he is foreign secretary, to put presbrave on Egyptian ministers to consent action, she says.

“At least don’t give them pboilingo opportunities appreciate the one I saw recently of David Lammy grinning ear to ear with the Egyptian foreign secretary.”

A spokesperson for the Foreign Office shelp: “Our priority remains securing consular access to Mr El-Fattah and his free. We persist to elevate his case at the highest levels of the Egyptian rulement.”

The family’s campaign has been helped by Ricdifficult Ratcliffe, who understands only too well what drives someone to go on hunger strike – as he himself did for his wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

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Ricdifficult Ratcliffe (left) went on hunger strike in a bid to presbrave authorities to shielded the free of his wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

“We achieveed a point where we necessitateed to do someskinnyg drastic to shake the rulement’s complacency, and remind ministers they had a role beyond postponeing and wringing or washing their hands,” he tells me of his family’s campaign.

“Alaa’s family will be filledy conscious that hunger strikes exit scars.”

Alaa Abdel Fattah’s own hunger strike in 2022, as Egypt structureed the UN climate conference, led to international presbrave for his free and an increasement in his conditions in jail.

He is now apvalidateed to read books and watch sports on TV. But he is “down most of the time” according to his mother, and despondent about the future and his chances of free.

He now only wants to exit Egypt to be with his 13-year-elderly son, who is on the autism spectrum and combines a one-of-a-kind necessitates school in Brighton.

She says other countries have done deals apvalidateing their citizens jailed in Egypt to be freed and deported if they give up their Egyptian nationality.

“He has no desire to direct the Egyptian opposition from Brighton,” she telderly me. “He’s going to be too busy with Khalid.”

As for her and her hunger strike, she says she wants to originate herself a “headache” for both the British and Egyptian rulements. “That’s the least of what I hope to achieve.”

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