Cairo (AFP) – Jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah began a hunger strike at the start of the month after his mother was hospitalised more than 150 days into her own hunger strike ...

Her son Alaa Abdel Fattah, 43, an icon of Egypt’s 2011 revolution and a secular critic of president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, completed a five-year prison sentence in September but has not yet been ...