The family of jailed Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah said on Thursday they had been informed by prison authorities that medical intervention was taken to maintain his health, four days after he escalated his protest.
Lawyer granted permit for prison visit, denied accessSHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 10 - The family of jailed Egyptian-British hunger strikersaid on Thursday they had been informed by prison authorities that medical intervention was taken to maintain his health, four days after he escalated his protest.
"Permits are normally valid for a week," Sanaa Seif, one of Abd el-Fattah's sisters, told Reuters. "They're just throwing us in bureaucratic loopholes." "They said medical procedures were implemented to maintain his health and that legal entities have been informed," Laila Soueif told Reuters by phone. "Nobody has officially notified us with any action that has been taken."
Another detainee, Alaa al-Salmy, died in a prison on the outskirts of Cairo in October after a two-month hunger strike, according to Egyptian rights groups.Abd el-Fattah was sentenced most recently in December 2021 to five years on charges of spreading false news, the same month he gained British nationality through his mother.
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