On Monday Laila will be joined on her hunger strike and her daily visit to Downing Street, by the Australian journalist Peter Greste. Peter was imprisoned in Egypt for one year for his work with Al Jazeera English, and spent much of that year locked up with Alaa.

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Laila Soueif, mother of British-Egyptian citizen Alaa Abd el-Fattah, is today (Monday 13th January) starting daily visits to Downing Street, to remind Prime Minister Keir Starmer to ‘pick up the phone’ to President Sisi of Egypt in order to secure the release of her son from prison.

Today is day 106 of her hunger strike…

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Laila Soueif, the mother of British-Egyptian citizen Alaa Abd el-Fattah, has started a hunger strike in Cairo, in protest at her son’s continued imprisonment in Egypt after the end of his 5 year prison sentence. She does not plan to eat until he is released.

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The sisters of Alaa Abd el-Fattah have criticised David Lammy for failing to meet their family since becoming Foreign Secretary, saying that he ‘made promises to us in opposition, but now in government he won’t even meet us’, at a press conference in London.

Sanaa and Mona Seif were joined by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe at the briefing, in the run up to Sunday 29th September, which will mark 5 years since Alaa Abd el-Fattah was arrested and detained in Egypt.

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A live-updated rolling press release was maintained through the duration of COP27, which was held in Egypt in 2023.

Alaa had been on a partial hunger strike for 200+ days in the build-up and went on water strike as the conference began.

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