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David Lynch

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Starmer presses egyptian president for release of jailed british man | History Defined

Laila Soueif is the mother of jailed British-Egyptian Alaa Abd El-Fattah, 43, who has been detained in Egypt since September 29 2019, and in December 2021 was sentenced to five years in prison after being accused of spreading false news (James Manning/PA) - (PA Wire)

Sir Keir Starmer has raised the case of a jailed British citizen, whose mother is in a dangerous stage of a hunger strike, with the president of Egypt.

The Prime Minister spoke to Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Friday afternoon, Downing Street said.

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