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Yasmine Ahmed talks to Laila Soueif who has spent almost 150 days on hunger strike in protest over her son’s imprisonment in Egypt.<\/em><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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 Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":192539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[13680,258,256,40938,4697,415,22459,257,21102,254],"class_list":["post-192538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-abdel","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alaa","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-fattah","tag-news","tag-releasing","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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