SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — The Egyptian authorities have begun a “medical intervention” on the nation’s finest identified political prisoner, Alaa Abd El Fattah, who has been on a protracted starvation strike, his sister mentioned on Thursday.
Mr. Abd El Fattah’s sister, Mona Seif, posted her assertion on Fb after her brother escalated his starvation strike by refusing to drink water from the start of this week, when the United Nations-sponsored local weather summit opened within the Egyptian Crimson Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh. One other of his sisters mentioned this week that her household feared that he was being drive fed.
Within the Fb put up, Ms. Seif mentioned that the intervention was being carried out with the information of judicial authorities, however added that neither her household nor her brother’s attorneys had been instructed about it.
Mr. Abd El Fattah has been on a starvation strike for greater than 200 days.
