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‘Dead or free’: Alaa Abd el-Fattah escalates hunger strike

The influential 40-year-old blogger had been on a partial hunger strike for months [File: Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo]

Prominent jailed Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has begun a full hunger strike ahead of the COP27 climate summit, as supporters say he will be either dead or free when world leaders convene in Sharm el-Sheikh next week.

Abd el-Fattah said in a letter to his family that he would start a zero-calories hunger strike on Tuesday and stop drinking water from November 6, when global climate talks are set to kick off in the Red Sea town.

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