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The mother of a British-Egyptian activist imprisoned in Cairo has been admitted to hospital for the second time, a week after resuming a full hunger strike to campaign for his release, her family says.
Laila Soueif, 69, the mother of Alaa Abdel Fattah, was taken to Guy's and St Thomas' hospital in London on Thursday with dangerously low blood sugar and blood pressure. She is refusing glucose treatment.
She began consuming only tea, coffee and rehydration salts in September.
She moved to a partial strike in February, consuming 300 calories a day, after she was admitted to hospital for the first time and the British prime minister said he had "pressed" Egypt's president to free her son.
