Having lost a third of her body weight during a 134-day hunger strike, a "weak" Laila Soueif on Monday urged UK Prime ...

Laila Soueif has not eaten for 134 days as she campaigns for the release of her pro-democracy activist son from jail in Egypt ...

But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike, ...

A mother's desperate hunger strike outside 10 Downing Street aims to secure her son's release from an Egyptian prison.

Laila Soueif, mathematician and mother, is on a hunger strike to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a political activist imprisoned in Egypt. Despite her health declining, Soueif pleas for ...

El-Fattah’s mother, the Cairo University professor Laila Soueif, has been on hunger strike for nearly four months in the U.K., where both she and her son have dual citizenship, demanding that ...

Laila Soueif sits on a camping chair outside the gates of Downing Street, with her tiny frame swaddled in a puffer jacket. She is flanked by placards emblazoned with images of a beaming curly ...

Laila Soueif, who has been on hunger strike for 117 days in protest over her son Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s treatment in Egypt, has urged Sir Keir Starmer to intervene as “time is running out”.