Dr. Laila Souief looked small and frail, but her voice was determined as she addressed the media outside Downing Street in ...

Having lost a third of her body weight during a 134-day hunger strike, a "weak" Laila Soueif on Monday urged UK Prime ...

Laila Soueif has not eaten for 134 days as she campaigns for the release of her pro-democracy activist son from jail in Egypt ...

Laila Soueif, 68, has been sitting outside 10 Downing Street for 130 days on a hunger strike. She is a mother who is trying ...

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside ...

A mother's desperate hunger strike outside 10 Downing Street aims to secure her son's release from an Egyptian prison.

We, the undersigned 13 freedom of expression and human rights organisations, are writing to you regarding the imprisoned writer and activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, ahead of your upcoming trip to Egypt.

El-Fattah’s mother ... It’s almost impossible to fathom. SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Yes, and she, Alaa — she has British citizenship. So does Alaa. And so, they’ve been pressuring the ...

The man is her son, imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah ... Minister Keir Starmer and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is needed to secure her son’s ...

It added that the Prime Minister had also raised the case with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ... talk directly to President Sisi to secure Alaa’s freedom,” she said on Friday.