David Lammy raised the case of a jailed British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist with officials in Cairo this week, Downing Street said, as it faced criticism from the man’s mother over his ongoing imprisonment.
Laila Soueif, who has been on hunger strike for 117 days in protest over her son Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s treatment in Egypt, has urged Sir Keir Starmer to intervene as “time is running out”.
