The family of a British citizen on a water and hunger strike in jail in Egypt say they do not know if he is alive, after the UK and the Egyptian authorities failed to provide proof of life despite repeated pleas.
Alaa Abdel Fattah, 49, a prominent British-Egyptian human rights activist, stopped drinking water on Sunday, after a six month hunger strike in protest of his unjust detention and Cairo’s refusal to allow him consular access.
