Egyptian-British activist: Mother intends 100 days of hunger strike

Egyptian-British activist: Mother intends 100 days of hunger strike

Tuesday marks the 100th day of the hunger strike of the 68-year-old Laila Sieif. With her action, she struggles that the British government frees her son from prison in Egypt, as her family reports.

The background of the Fall Alaa ABD EL-Fattah

alaa ABD EL-FATTAH is a leading activist of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. He has been in prison for the majority of the last decade. In 2019 he was sentenced to a further five years in prison after shared a Facebook post that pointed out human rights violations in Egyptian prisons.

Laila Soueif's tireless protest

Sieif began her hunger strike in September and protests against the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs against the lack of progress when her son was released. According to her family, she currently feeds on black coffee, herbal tea and three packs of rehydration salts per day.

a hopeful visit to prison

currently is in Cairo, hoping to meet her son on January 8 for a 20-minute visit. The visit should take place behind a glass pane in a prison that is one hour outside the Egyptian capital.

an urgent appeal to the British government

"Unfortunately, the government apparently waited until I have to be admitted to the hospital before it decided to secure my son's freedom. We were lucky that my body is resilient, but soon the time is going," said the explanation.

reactions of the British government

The British government previously declared that it is working to achieve ABD EL-Fattah's release. 2022 brought Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Activists during a meeting with the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the edge of the COP27, as a spokesman for Downing Street reported at the time.