Abdel-Fattah's other sister, Mona Seif, said she believed the government was continuing to restrict access to her brother to hide the effects of his hunger strike, which they have been denying.

Abdel-Fattah, who turns 41 on Friday, has spent most of the past decade in prison because of his criticism of Egypt's rulers. Last year, he was sentenced to five years for sharing a Facebook post ...

Just one week after Dr. Laila Soueif ended her 10-month hunger strike, an Egyptian court has removed her son, ...

Alaa Abdel Fattah, a prominent writer and pro-democracy activist, is one of Egypt’s highest-profile prisoners. Laila Soueif, his mother, a math professor and human rights activist, was ...