Cairo (AFP) – Jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah began a hunger strike at the start of the month after his mother was hospitalised more than 150 days into her own hunger strike ...

Her son Alaa Abdel Fattah, 43, an icon of Egypt’s 2011 revolution and a secular critic of president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, completed a five-year prison sentence in September but has not yet been ...

Geneva (AFP) – Palestinians who say they suffered brutal beatings and sexual abuse in Israeli detention and at the hands of Israeli settlers testified about their ordeals at the United Nations ...

She said the Prime Minister’s “personal engagement” with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi was needed to ensure her son is released. “I also hope that it will take days and not weeks ...

Jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has begun a hunger strike after hearing that his mother Laila Soueif, 68, had been hospitalised after refusing food for more than 150 days, the ...