Mother of activist imprisoned in Egypt threatens to go back on hunger strike

Laila Soueif, who collapsed after 150 days on hunger strike, said she feared she would live for only a week or two if she went back on hunger strike. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters

The mother of the jailed British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has said she will go on hunger strike again by the end of the month if no substantive progress is made to release her son.

Laila Soueif, 68, said: “I know the step will mean I have a week or fortnight left to live.”