Stamer wrote to Egyptian President Abel Fattah el-Sisi on 26 December and 8 January, while National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell discussed Alaa with Egyptian authorities in Cairo on 2 January.

Laila Soueif, the mother of jailed Egyptian British author and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, has been hospitalized in London after nearly 150 days on hunger strike. The 68-year-old human rights ...