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.

In London to campaign for the release of her British-Egyptian son, Alaa Abdel Fattah, the 68-year-old maths professor insists – stoically – that she’s “not feeling bad at all”.

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 ...