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Egypt still refuses to release Alaa, despite increasing pressure by solidarity campaigns, international rights groups and the UK government.<\/em><\/p>\n The mother of Egyptian-British activist and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, Laila Soueif<\/a>, was admitted to St Thomas’ Hospital in the UK’s capital, London, in late May after her health severely deteriorated as a result of her prolonged hunger strike. Soueif started the hunger strike<\/a> in September 2024 in protest of the arbitrary imprisonment of her son by Egyptian…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Egypt still refuses to release Alaa, despite increasing pressure by solidarity campaigns, international rights groups and the UK government. The mother of Egyptian-British activist and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, Laila Soueif, was admitted to St Thomas’ Hospital in the UK’s capital, London, in late May after her health severely deteriorated as a result of her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":200561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[36512,8956,258,256,40938,6974,4697,415,51682,50559,6223,11647,7753,257,51683,9590,254,2080],"class_list":["post-200560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-abd","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alaa","tag-death","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptianbritish","tag-elfattah","tag-hunger","tag-imprisoned","tag-mother","tag-news","tag-ninemonthlong","tag-risk","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/200560","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=200560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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