Laila Soueif's blood sugar count has dropped dangerously as she marks the 117th day of her hunger strike to demand her son's ...

In a week dominated by the horrific Southport killings and the return of Donald Trump to the White House, there has been a ...

Hopes of a family reunion in Brighton for a son with his jailed father – a political prisoner in Egypt – have been dashed.

Fattah, the man who helped Peter Greste through his darkest days, is still in prison in Cairo despite being due for release ...

British Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah remains imprisoned in Cairo despite completing his sentence in September.

Today, his 68-year-old mother Professor Laila Soueif, who has been on hunger strike for 117 days in protest over her son’s ...

Laila Soueif, who has been on hunger strike for 117 days over the failure to secure Alaa Abd El-Fattah's release from an ...

A mother from Streatham has been on hunger strike for more than a hundred days to press for her son's release from an ...

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

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 ...

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 ...