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Release of activist jailed in Egypt will take time, Starmer tells mother

Laila Soueif has been on hunger strike for 124 days in protest at her son Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s imprisonment.

Evening Standard · Jan 31, 2025

Jailed writer’s plight a ‘focus’ of Lammy’s meeting with Egyptian counterpart

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

Evening Standard · Jan 24, 2025

Family of jailed dissident urge Lammy to prioritise case as he visits Egypt

‘Moment of truth’ for UK foreign secretary over Alaa Abd El Fattah, who is still being held in a Cairo prison

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2025

Jailed activist ‘hurt’ PM did not raise case with Egyptian leader, says family

Campaigners want Sir Keir Starmer to make a direct intervention with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to help free Alaa Abd El-Fattah.

Evening Standard · Dec 23, 2024

‘I’ll starve myself until I collapse to secure my son’s release from Egyptian prison,’ vows grandmother

Exclusive: Pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has been in prison in Egypt for more than 10 years on charges the United Nations says are unjust

The Independent UK · Dec 22, 2024

Alaa Abd el-Fattah: mother on hunger strike takes protest to Westminster

Laila Soueif to sit outside Foreign Office over Cairo’s extended detention of her British-Egyptian dissident son

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2024

Hunger strike mother steps up action in bid to free son jailed in Egypt

Alaa Abd El-Fattah has spent most of the past decade in prison because of his criticism of Egypt’s rulers.

Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2024

‘Time is running out’: 12 Nobel laureates urge Keir Starmer to intervene in case of jailed activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah

Writers JM Coetzee, Annie Ernaux, Kazuo Ishiguro and Olga Tokarczuk are among the laureates imploring the prime minister to act on behalf of the British Egyptian political prisoner

The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2024

David Lammy to appoint envoy to support Britons detained abroad

After Guardian reporting, foreign secretary looks at cases of thousands who need consular help each year

The Guardian - UK · Nov 28, 2024

Starmer urged to intervene in bid to free Alaa Abd El-Fattah from Egyptian jail

Laila Soueif, Mr El-Fattah’s mother, is 58 days into a hunger strike and urged ministers to help free her son.

Evening Standard · Nov 27, 2024