British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told a mother who has been on hunger strike for 140 days that he will press the Egyptian government to release her son.
In a statement Sunday, Starmer confirmed that he met Laila Soueif in recent days and said he will do “all that I can” to secure the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British-Egyptian dual national who has who has spent more than five years in an Egyptian prison, accused of “spreading false news” on social media.
