Sir Keir Starmer has raised the case of a jailed British citizen, whose mother is in a dangerous stage of a hunger strike, with the president of Egypt.
He pressed for Alaa’s release, having met his mother Laila Soueif in recent weeks,” a Downing Street spokesperson said.
His mother, Laila Soueif, who is on hunger strike, was taken to St Thomas’ Hospital in central London on Monday evening where she faces an “immediate risk to life”, according to her doctor.
During the call, Sir Keir pressed for the release of British-Egyptian national Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who has been detained in Egypt since September 29 2019.
She said: “When we met Keir Starmer he asked us for more time and promised that he would do all he could to free my brother and reunite him with his son in Brighton.
