She is refusing artificial glucose or nutrition as her protest demanding her son's release continues Laila Soueif has lost 30kg since she launched her hunger strike to demand the UK government ...

warns she is at "high risk of sudden death with continued fasting". "I have iterated the importance of ceasing her hunger strike or accepting artificial glucose or nutrition to reduce the risk to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The mother of a British-Egyptian democracy activist imprisoned in Egypt is at “high risk of sudden death ...

Jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has begun a hunger strike after hearing that his mother Laila Soueif, 68, had been hospitalised after refusing food for more than 150 days, the ...