Mona Seif resubmitts a request for clemency, which she first made in June, along with a personal plea to Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
, a prominent blogger and activist who has been in detention for much of the last decade, has been on hunger strike since April 2. He said he would stop drinking water on Sunday, to coincide with the opening of the climate talks.British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and other European leaders said they raised the case of Abd el-Fattah, an Egyptian-British national, when they attended the summit.
Abd el-Fattah’s mother, who has been making daily visits to the prison northwest of Cairo where Abd el-Fattah is being held, has received no news from her son but said prison officials told her on Thursday that medical intervention was made for his health. His lawyer Khaled Ali went to the prison on Thursday after receiving a rare authorization to visit from the public prosecutor, but said he was denied access on the grounds that the permit carried Wednesday’s date.
Abd el-Fattah rose to prominence in Egypt’s 2011 uprising before being swept up in a far-reaching crackdown on political dissent after Sisi, then army chief, led the 2013 ouster of Egypt’s first democratically elected president,Rights groups say tens of thousands of people have been arrested since then including Islamists, leftists and liberals. Sisi and his supporters say security and stability are paramount.
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