Key takeaways:
- English Egyptian supportive of a vote-based system lobbyist Alaa Abdel Fattah has told his family in a letter that he has finished a seven-month hunger strike in jail in Egypt.
- “I’ve broken my strike. I’ll make sense of everything on Thursday,” says the letter to his mom, dated Monday.
His sister said she felt “circumspectly feeling better, ” yet the family expected to see him with their own eyes.
A day after, they were given a letter from Abdel Fattah saying he had continued drinking water on Saturday.
The 40-year-old began denying water on 6 November to agree with the beginning of the COP27 environment meeting in Sharm el-Sheik, wanting to pressure Egypt into allowing English consular authorities to visit him.
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Last Thursday, his mom was told by jail authorities that he had gone through a vague “clinical mediation with the information on a legal power.” Egypt’s public arraignment, in the meantime, attested that he was “healthy” without giving any evidence.
The UK, UN, US, and a few nations have required his delivery.
Abdel Fattah’s kid mother, Laila Soueif, has been hanging tight for news outside Aqueduct al-Natroun jail in the desert north-west of Cairo consistently since he raised his craving strike.
