Laila Soueif has critcised the Prime Minister for not having ‘deigned to reply’ to a letter she sent him about her son’s plight.

Egyptian writer is pessimistic that the foreign secretary will secure his release during his visit to Egypt on Thursday.

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy visits Cairo on Thursday to press local officials to release a jailed British-Egyptian ...

I've been on hunger strike for over 100 days because I cannot allow my son to continue languishing in prison' - Laila Souief'The Foreign Secretary has said Alaa's case is a "number one" issue for his ...

The family of a jailed British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist hope David Lammy can secure his release when he visits Egypt on Thursday. The Foreign Secretary is expected to press for Alaa Abd ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has joined more than a dozen human rights organisations in calling on UK Foreign Minister ...

LONDON (Reuters) - An Australian journalist, who was once jailed for 400 days in Egypt, said he is staging a hunger strike in ...

The mother of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah vowed on Tuesday, 100 days into her hunger strike, to continue until he is released even if her health fails her.

Laila Soueif launched her hunger strike on 29 September, when the Egyptian authorities failed to honour Abd el-Fattah’s release date as he completed a five-year sentence for “spreading false ...

His mother, Laila Soueif, 68, has vowed not to eat until he is freed and is “surviving on nothing” but black coffee, herbal tea and three packets of rehydration salts a day, according to the ...