Egyptian-UK activist Alaa Abdel Fattah gets sick on hunger strike in prison

Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has develop into sick after spending extra than 50 days on a hunger strike in prison, his family mentioned on Tuesday.

The political activist has spent extra than a decade behind bars in Egypt.

He mentioned he had suffered repeated bouts of vomiting over the past week, in a letter to his family on Saturday.

Abdel Fattah went on hunger strike on March 1, after learning that his mother, Laila Soueif, had been hospitalised on her personal hunger strike in London, where she had been advocating for his beginning. 

Soueif, 68, has no longer eaten obtain meals since September 2024. She used to be hospitalised in London in February with lifestyles-threateningly low blood sugar ranges. She has since agreed to be keep on a glucose drip.

Abdel Fattah has survived on natural tea, shadowy coffee and rehydration salts only since the beginning of his hunger strike. In penal advanced, he’s receiving treatment for suspected injury to his abdominal and intestines.  

He wrote to his family that the inflammation in his abdominal used to be “getting worse”, and that the medications were making him “dizzy” and impairing his vision. 

“We are all so exhausted. My mum and my brother are actually putting their our bodies on the line, factual to provide Alaa the freedom he deserves”, Abdel Fattah’s sister Sanaa Seif mentioned in a observation.

“Their health is so precarious, I’m continually tremulous that we are on the verge of a tragedy. We need Keir Starmer to assassinate all he can to bring Alaa dwelling to us.”

Alaa Abdel Fattah has gone on hunger strike several instances in the past, most notably in 2022 during the COP27 summit held in Egypt.

The activist rose to prominence during the 2011 Arab Spring, when he campaigned for democracy in Egypt. He has been imprisoned virtually continuously since 2014.

He used to be imagined to be released last year, but Egyptian authorities postponed his discharge till 2027, by excluding his pre-trial detention from his 5-year sentence for costs including “spreading false news.” 

Many human rights organisations personal known as for his beginning. UK Top Minister Keir Starmer urged Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi to free the activist during a meeting in February.

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