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The Associated Press & Sara Odeen-Isbister

Brit stuck in jail in Egypt has 'deteriorated' since he started hunger strike

The family of a British-Egyptian activist imprisoned in Egypt say his condition has "deteriorated severely" after he went on a brutal hunger strike.

Alaa Abdel-Fattah's mother, aunt and two sisters visited him at Wadi elNatroun prison just north of Cairo today for the first time in almost a month and said he was not doing well.

One of the sisters Mona Seif tweeted: "News from the visit are unsettling," adding that his condition had "deteriorated severely" following his hunger strike, which appears to have ended.

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