The strike is intended to put pressure on the British government to secure the release of her son, pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who is in jail in the Egyptian capital of Cairo.

Alaa Abdel Fattah, seen here in May 2019, has spent most of the past decade in prison An Egyptian court has sentenced leading activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to five years in prison after convicting ...

British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has told his family in a letter that he has ended a seven-month hunger strike in prison in Egypt. "I've broken my strike. I'll explain ...

The family were informed that Starmer had raised his case at a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on 8 August, but were not provided with much detail about what was discussed.