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Alaa Abd el-Fattah has ended hunger strike, sister says

Alaa Abd el-Fattah has ended hunger strike, sister says

British-Egyptian political prisoner had been on a partial hunger strike of 100 calories or less a day for six months

Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the British-Egyptian democracy activist jailed in Egypt, has told his family in a letter that he has ended his six-month-long hunger strike, which he began in protest against his detention conditions.

“I’ve broken my strike. I’ll explain everything on Thursday,” he told them, in reference to his monthly family prison visits to the Wadi el-Natrun desert prison where he is being held. The democracy activist was sentenced to a further five years in prison last year for sharing a social media post about torture, shortly after gaining British citizenship through his mother.

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