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Josh Salisbury

COP27: Jailed British-Egyptian activist stops drinking water as part of hunger strike protest

Composite of Rishi Sunak and Alaa Abd El-Fattah

(Picture: ES composite)

A jailed British-Egyptian activist on hunger strike has now stopped drinking water to coincide with the start of COP27, his sister has said.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a writer and democracy activist, has been imprisoned for much of the past decade and has been on a partial hunger strike for six months in a bid to be granted UK consular access.

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