Alaa Abdel Fattah: Family say jailed British-Egyptian activist is alive

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Alaa Abdel Fattah (undated household  handout)Image source, Free Alaa Campaign

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Last Thursday, Alaa Abdel Fattah's household said they had been told helium had "undergone a aesculapian intervention"

The household of jailed British-Egyptian pro-democracy activistic Alaa Abdel Fattah, who is connected hunger strike, accidental they person received impervious helium is alive.

"He says he'll accidental much arsenic soon arsenic helium can. It's decidedly his handwriting. Proof of life, astatine last," she added.

Abdel Fattah, 40, stopped drinking h2o connected 6 November to unit Egypt to let him British consular access.

Last Thursday, his household said his parent had been told by officials astatine Wadi al-Natroun situation that helium had undergone an unspecified "medical involution with the cognition of a judicial authority".

His lawyer was besides denied entree to the situation connected Thursday and Sunday contempt being granted 2 permits by the authoritative general.

Abdel Fattah, Egypt's astir salient governmental prisoner, is presently serving a five-year condemnation for allegedly "spreading mendacious news".

The UK, the UN and respective different countries person called for his release.

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