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Egyptian prison authorities have intervened medically days after jailed British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah escalated his hunger strike, his mother said. The nature of the intervention is not known but Mr Abd El-Fattah's family have expressed fears prison officials will force-feed the activist.Mr Abd El-Fattah, 40, was sentenced to five years in prison in Egypt in December last year after being charged with spreading fake news.
The activist was charged over a Facebook post he shared about human rights abuses in Egyptian prisons in 2019.Mr Abd El-Fattah's mother Leila Soueif, said she spoke to prison authorities by phone and asked them if her son was undergoing any medical procedure and they said he was.