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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged to press the Egyptian government for the release of Laila Soueif’s son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British-Egyptian dual national who has been imprisoned for over five years on charges of “spreading false news” on social media. Soueif, who has been on a hunger strike for 140 days, has lost 55 pounds and has been camping outside government offices to draw attention to her son’s plight. Abd el-Fattah, a prominent pro-democracy activist, was sentenced to five years in prison for “liking” a Facebook post criticizing Egyptian prisons, with thousands of critics of President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi facing similar unjust imprisonment.
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