It is day 46 of writer and activist #AlaaAbdelFattah's open hunger strike in Tora prison in #Cairo. His health has deteriorated to dangerous levels. When his mother Laila Soueif last visited him, she reported that Alaa had lost a lot of weight and was feeling weak.
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Abdel Fattah's family fears for his life, as he enters a delicate phase of his hunger strike. His body will start using its own fat and tissues to survive, including the heart, which may have permanent and even fatal effects.
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Alaa began the strike to protest his life conditions in solitary confinement. His family said he is being deprived of basic rights and subjected to repeated torture, beatings and humiliation.
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He is not allowed to read or write, and his family can only visit him for twenty minutes a month. Alaa became a British citizen last April, through his mother who was born in London, as part of his family's efforts to find "any means possible" to secure his release.
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Today, the family is trying to pressure the Sisi regime through the British authorities. The writer and activist has spent most of the last decade in Sisi's prisons, and was arrested for the last time in 2019 after a wave of demonstrations erupted in Egypt.
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