Activist Alaa Abdelfatá “is in good health” after undergoing medical intervention

Nov. 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The prominent activist Alaa Abdelfatá “is in good health” after the Egyptian health authorities carried out a “medical intervention” after spending more than 200 days on a hunger strike against his imprisonment.

“Egypt’s prosecutor has just issued a statement: Alaa is in good health. Her vital signs suggest there is no hunger strike.
He is comfortable where he is. And mom visited him two days ago on November 7! “, Her sister, Mona Seif, also an activist, has indicated on her Twitter profile.

Shortly before, the British Minister of State, Tariq Ahmad, has assured that he has met with the Egyptian ambassador to the United Kingdom to reiterate the call of the Government, led by the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, for the case to be resolved “quickly”. .

“We hope that consular access will be granted and that Alaa will receive adequate medical care,” he indicated on his official Twitter profile, after the activist’s lawyer denounced that he had been denied access to the prison where he is being held. secluded.

The 40-year-old activist has been eating only one hundred calories for more than 200 days to demand that the Egyptian authorities allow him consular access to the United Kingdom. Sunak has promised to “address at the highest levels” Abdelfatá’s release and has denounced his “unacceptable treatment” in a letter sent to his sister, Sanaa Seif.

Two days ago, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, called on Egypt for the “immediate” release of Abdelfatá, who stopped drinking water on Sunday as part of the hunger strike that began in April.

Abdelfatá, an important Egyptian blogger and one of the main figures of the popular uprising against Hosni Mubarak in 2011 in the framework of the ‘Arab Spring’, has been in prison for nine years and in 2021 he was sentenced to another five-year prison sentence for ” dissemination of false news”, charges that various NGOs have branded as false.

The current Egyptian president, Abdelfatá al Sisi, came to power through a coup in July 2013 that he led after a series of massive demonstrations against the then president, the Islamist Mohamed Mursi, the first democratically elected president in the country and who died in 2019 during a court hearing against him after his arrest after the coup.

The leader has promoted a broad campaign of repression and persecution against opponents, both liberal groups and Islamist organizations –declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization–, an initiative that Human Rights groups have denounced as the most serious in recent times.