The Latest Breaking News from Alaa AbdelFattah

Detained Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah’s decision to escalate a hunger strike in prison to a refusal to drink water has raised the stakes and shone a spotlight on human rights violations as Egypt hosts the COP27 climate summit. For his mother, the time has come for the world to…

Rishi Sunak said he would raise Alaa Abdel Fattah's imprisonment with the Egyptian government and reply again by the end of COP27, but human rights organisations and his family say it will be too late then

Envoys from around the globe gathered Sunday in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for talks on tackling climate change

The unlawful jailing of Mr Abdel-Fattah, a writer and an activist, has sparked uproar around the world

A group of winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature have urged world leaders to raise human rights issues as they visit Egypt for the COP27 climate change conference

The family of Egypt’s most prominent imprisoned activist says he went on “full hunger strike."

The software developer is one of Egypt’s most high-profile political prisoners and is already on hunger strike

Foreign secretary is warned the software developer ‘may not live for much longer’

‘If the UK does not engage right now the Egyptians authorities will see it as a green light to let him die,’ says sister Alaa Abdel-Fattah