‘Where is Liz Truss?’: sister of activist held in Cairo jail urges UK to act

Sanaa Seif says the UK government is not standing up for her brother Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who is facing death on a 74-day hunger strike in Egypt

The sister of a British dual national human rights activist held in a Cairo jail and now on a 74-day hunger strike has urged the UK foreign secretary to make a public demand that Alaa Abd el-Fattah is saved from death by releasing him.

Sanaa Seif was speaking at an event attended by Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the released British-Iranian dual national, and Gurpreet Singh, the brother of Jagtar Singh Johal – a Sikh activist based in Dunbarton detained by the Indian police nearly five years ago. He has still not been charged and says a confession was extracted under torture.

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