The Foreign Office has said it is in contact with Egyptian authorities about the release of jailed activist Alaa Abd el ...

Laila Soueif tells the BBC she believes she has "no other choice" to secure the release of her son Alaa Abdel Fattah from an ...

I went to St. Thomas’s Hospital in London to visit Dr. Laila Soueif, who is on a protracted hunger strike to draw attention ...

Laila Soueif, 69, is currently at St Thomas’s Hospital suffering from extremely low blood sugar levels. Her doctors say she is at severe risk of “sudden death”. The maths professor and pro ...

The mother of a pro-democracy activist imprisoned in Egypt is seriously ill in a London hospital after resuming a hunger ...

The British government said on Tuesday it was "deeply concerned" about the health of the mother of jailed Egyptian-British ...

A 69-year-old woman named Laila Soueif, who has been on a hunger strike for 245 days is surviving miraculously.A woman is on ...

Laila Soueif, the mother of jailed British Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, was hospitalized Friday after 242 days on hunger strike, with doctors warning she’s at risk of “sudden death ...

The mother of a British-Egyptian man imprisoned in Egypt has declared she is willing to die on hunger strike to secure his ...

Laila Soueif, who has lost 42% of her bodyweight and weighs 49kg, has not eaten for more than eight months in protest of her ...