His mother, Laila Soueif, was taken to St Thomas’ Hospital in central London on Monday evening and stayed overnight after her blood sugar levels, blood pressure and sodium levels recorded “dangerously new lows”, the Free Alaa campaign said.
The campaign said Ms Soueif has lost almost 30kg – 35% of her starting body weight – and has consumed nothing but herbal tea, black coffee and rehydration salts since September 29 last year.
British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, 43, has been detained in Egypt since September 29 2019 and in December 2021 was sentenced to five years in prison after being accused of spreading false news.
Writing on social media site X, formerly Twitter, her daughter Mona Seif said: “All she wants is for Alaa to be free now that he served the full five-year sentence.”.
The campaign said Tuesday marked the 149th day of the the 68-year-old’s hunger strike and she is not taking glucose treatment as a result of her protest action.
