Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah gives “proof of life” in prison, according to his sister

The Egyptian opponent, who began a hunger strike on April 2, had stopped drinking water on November 6, first day of COP27 in Egypt.

Le Monde with AFP

The family of the Egyptian opponent Alaa Abdel Fattah announced Monday November 14 that it had received a letter qualified as “proof of life”, a sister of the Egyptian opponent imprisoned and hunger strikes said on Twitter. p>

i’m so relief. We just GOT A Note from prison to my mother, alaa is alive, he says he’s drotal again as o… https://t.co/53kszvpvx

– Sana2 (@sanaa)

“Alaa is alive, he says that he was drunk again on November 12, wrote his sister Sanaa Seif, who said he was” relieved “in a tweet. It is his writing, There is no doubt. Finally proof of life. “

Alaa Abdel Fattah, a leading activist and blogger, was sentenced in December 2021 to five years in prison for dissemination of false news and started, on April 2, a hunger strike that has lasted for 220 days, in order to to protest against his imprisonment and his conditions of detention.

Since coming to power, following the army of the army of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in the summer of 2013, President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi is accused by NGOs of carrying a severe repression against his opponents and human rights defenders.

/Media reports.