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Alaa Abdel Fattah’s Mother Hospitalised Amid Hunger Strike
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Alaa Abdel Fattah’s mother hospitalised amid hunger strike
Egyptian academic Laila Soueif has been hospitalised in London after her health deteriorated severely during a prolonged hunger strike protesting her son Alaa Abdel Fattah's continued imprisonment in Egypt. The development has triggered a wave of public and international solidarity, with rights groups and public figures calling for his immediate release. Doctors at the hospital treating Soueif reported a dangerously low level of blood glucose, p…
Laila Soueif is sixty-nine years old and lies on a hospital bed in St. Thomas in London. Her body, now a shriveled twig, is slowly dying. She has been on hunger strike for eight months and now, according to doctors, the risk of collapse and sudden death is imminent. Soueif weighs forty-nine kilos and since September 2024 she has lost about 42% of her body. She is a brilliant Egyptian-British mathematician, a very pragmatic activist, and she has …
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