UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy visits Cairo on Thursday to press local officials to release a jailed British-Egyptian ...

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

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

An Australian journalist, who was once jailed for 400 days in Egypt, said he is staging a hunger strike in London to press ...

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

His mother, Laila Soueif, 68, has spent 115 days on hunger strike and has vowed not to eat until he is freed. Ms Soueif said Mr Lammy should “bring Alaa back with him on the plane”, adding ...

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 ...

Australian journalist Peter Greste is on a hunger strike in London, urging the UK to help free Egyptian-British dissident ...

Laila Soueif, during her hunger strike in Whitehall (Family handout) He has spent most of the past decade in prison because of his criticism of Egypt’s rulers and is unable to see his young son ...

Handout photo issued by the family of Alaa Abd El-Fattah showing his mother, Laila Soueif, during her hunger strike in Whitehall, central London. He has spent most of the past decade in prison ...