Alaa Abd El-Fattah is being 'left to die on the world stage', with Cop27 taking place while British activist is locked up in Egypt, his aunt told LBC
Alaa Abd El-Fattah is being "left to die on the world stage", his aunt has said, with the British-Egyptian activist's zero-calorie hunger strike taking place against the backdrop of Cop27 in Egypt.Mr El-Fattah was imprisoned in December, but has spent most of the last decade behind bars in Cairo over his pro-democracy activism.
Speaking on LBC's Tonight with Andrew Marr, his aunt Ahdaf Soueif said Mr El-Fattah "finds it impossible to be passive. And this is his way of helping the campaign to free him.The British government has been campaigning to get him freed, but to no avail so far.Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary James Cleverly are in Egypt for the climate summit. Ms Soueif called on them to put pressure on the Egyptian authorities while out there.
Rishi Sunak has promised the family he would raise their plight to the Egyptian president but would update the family after COP27, which the family fears could be too late.
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