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Laila Soueif and Sanaa Seif: Hunger for freedom
Stephen Sackur speaks to Laila Soueif - mother of Alaa Abdel Fattah, a political prisoner in Egypt - and Alaa鈥檚 sister Sanaa Seif.
Stephen Sackur speaks to Laila Soueif, mother of Alaa Abdel Fattah, a political prisoner in Egypt and Alaa鈥檚 sister Sanaa Seif. Laila is into the fifth month of a hunger strike in a desperate bid to win her son鈥檚 freedom. Alaa is a dual British-Egyptian citizen 鈥� should the UK be doing more to help?
(Photo: Egyptian activist Laila Soueif gives a statement to the media outside Downing Street about her son, Alaa Abdel Fattah, in London, 10 February 2025. Credit: Tolga Akmen/EPA)
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