The mother of jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah says she is worried there could be a rapid deterioration in his health after nearly 90 days on hunger strike, despite some improvements in his prison conditions.
Abd el-Fattah, a 40-year-old blogger who rose to prominence with Egypt's 2011 uprising, has become too weak to do his own washing or climb to look out of a high window in his cell, his mother Laila Soueif said.
Abd el-Fattah was sentenced to five years in December on charges of spreading false news for sharing a social media post about the death of a prisoner, and had previously been jailed for protesting without authorisation. He began the strike on April 2 against his detention and alleged legal violations in prison.
"Every time I go, I'm thinking, is this going to be the time when they say 'no, he's not well he's been transferred to a hospital'?" said Soueif, a 66-year-old mathematics professor, who last visited her son on June 12.
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