Egypt: Why Releasing Alaa Abdel Fattah Is the Right Thing to Do

Yasmine Ahmed talks to Laila Soueif who has spent almost 150 days on hunger strike in protest over her son’s imprisonment in Egypt.

Alaa Abdel Fattah, a prominent writer and pro-democracy activist, is one of Egypt’s highest-profile prisoners. He has been detained unlawfully for over a decade and should be released immediately.

Laila Soueif, his mother, a math professor and human rights activist, was hospitalized in the early hours of February 25, following almost 150 days on a hunger strike to