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ALAA ABD EL FATTAH

Jailed Egypt activist ends hunger strike


Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-fattah poses for a photo in unknown location, in this undated handout image obtained by Reuters on November 8, 2022. (Courtesy of Omar Robert Hamilton/Handout via REUTERS)

Jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has ended a seven-month-long hunger strike, he wrote in a letter given to his family on Tuesday.

"I have ended the strike," the activist wrote, his sister Mona Seif announced.

Abdel Fattah, who consumed "only 100 calories a day" for seven months, escalated his strike — first refusing all food, then water — as the COP27 climate summit opened on Nov. 6 in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh.


Jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has ended a seven-month-long hunger strike, he wrote in a letter given to his family on Tuesday.

"I have ended the strike," the activist wrote, his sister Mona Seif announced. Abdel Fattah, who consumed "only 100 calories a day" for seven months, escalated his strike — first refusing all food, then...