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Alaa Abd el-Fattah is one of Egypt ’s most prominent pro-democracy activists.
His most recent crime was “liking’ a Facebook post describing torture in Egyptian prisons.
He has been in custody since September 2019 , and was sentenced to five years in prison.
Soueif is calling on the U.K. government to put pressure on their counterparts in Cairo to release him.
Soueif has been on hunger strike since Sep. 29 , the day her son was supposed to be released.
She has been camping out in front of the Foreign Office every weekday to make sure officials notice her.
The 68-year-old mom has lost 25 kilos ( 55 pounds ) and jokes that she was helped by being overweight at the start of her hunger strike.
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