Sanaa Seif, sister of writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British-Egyptian activist imprisoned in Egypt, is staging a sit-in outside the Foreign Office
(Picture: PA)The family of a writer on hunger strike in an Egyptian prison are camping outside the Foreign Office in central London in a bid to help secure his freedom - and plan to stay there until next month.
British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah has spent most of the past decade behind bars in Egypt and last December was sentenced to five years after being accused of spreading false news.
