The Foreign Office has said it is in contact with Egyptian authorities about the release of jailed activist Alaa Abd el ...

Laila Soueif, 69, is currently at St Thomas’s Hospital suffering from extremely low blood sugar levels as she protests the ...

I went to St. Thomas’s Hospital in London to visit Dr. Laila Soueif, who is on a protracted hunger strike to draw attention ...

Laila Soueif tells the BBC she believes she has "no other choice" to secure the release of her son Alaa Abdel Fattah from an ...

The mother of a pro-democracy activist imprisoned in Egypt is seriously ill in a London hospital after resuming a hunger ...

The mother of jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah is close to death after 242 days on hunger strike, her ...

Emily Watson has appealed to Sir Keir Starmer to intensify efforts to “save” the mother of an imprisoned British-Egyptian ...

Mrs Soueif, who has been on hunger strike for over eight months, has lost 42% of her body weight, now weighing 49kg. Doctors ...

Soueif has suggested she is willing to die for her son. Seif said that she told doctors in London that if her mother’s life ...

A UN panel of independent human rights investigators said that prominent Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah is ...

Laila Soueif, 69, is currently at St Thomas’s Hospital suffering from extremely low blood sugar levels. Her doctors say she is at severe risk of “sudden death”. The maths professor and pro ...