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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The British government said on Tuesday it was "deeply concerned" about the health of the mother of jailed Egyptian-British ...

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 ...

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